Genesis 28:17
17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”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 12:11
11then to gthe 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, hyour tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.2 Samuel 24:18
David Builds an Altar
18And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of iAraunah the Jebusite.”1 Chronicles 21:18-28
David Builds an Altar
18Now jthe angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19So David went up at Gad’s word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord. 20Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground. 22And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.” 23Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.” 24But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” 25So David paid Ornan k600 shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of gold by weight for the site. 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
nanswered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. 27Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 28At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Solomon Builds the Temple
1 oThen Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem pon Mount Moriah, where the Lord ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew lacks the Lord
had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, ron the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 Chronicles 6:5-6
5‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; 6 sbut I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, tand I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
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