tSee Deut. 12:5
Deuteronomy 12:5-11
5But you shall seek athe place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation ▼▼Or name as its habitation
there. There you shall go, 6and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, cyour tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the dfirstborn of your herd and of your flock. 7And ethere you shall eat before the Lord your God, and fyou shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you. 8“You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, geveryone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 9for you have not as yet come to hthe rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. 10But when iyou go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, jand when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, 11then to kthe place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, lyour tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
1 Kings 9:3
3And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, mby putting my name there forever. nMy eyes and my heart will be there for all time.1 Chronicles 21:26
26And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord ▼▼Hebrew he
panswered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. 1 Chronicles 22:1
1Then David said, q“Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”2 Chronicles 6:6
6 rbut I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, sand I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’2 Chronicles 7:12
12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer tand have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.2 Chronicles 7:16
16 uFor now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.Psalms 78:68
68but he chose the tribe of Judah,Mount Zion, which he vloves.
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