Deuteronomy 12:5-7
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. Deuteronomy 12:14
14but at gthe place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.Deuteronomy 16:2
2And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or hthe herd, iat the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:6
6but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.1 Kings 8:29-30
29 jthat your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, k‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 30And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.1 Kings 8:44
44“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord ltoward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,1 Kings 11:32
32(but mhe shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, nthe city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),
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