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Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring everything that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings which you will vow to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 26:2
that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
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Deuteronomy 16:2
You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name.
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2 Chronicles 7 12
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him,“ I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
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1 Kings 8 29
so that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said,‘ My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant will pray toward this place.
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Isaiah 66:1-2
This is what the Lord says:“ Heaven is My throne and the earth is the footstool for My feet. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest?For My hand made all these things, So all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.“ But I will look to this one, At one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at My word.
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Psalms 132:13-14
For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it as His dwelling place.“ This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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Psalms 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
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Psalms 87:2-3
The Lord loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.Glorious things are spoken of you, City of God. Selah
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1 Kings 8 27
“ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!
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Colossians 2:9
For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
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1 Kings 8 16
‘ Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house so that My name would be there, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’
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1 Kings 8 20
Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Ephesians 2:20-22
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone,in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
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Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,
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Deuteronomy 12:13
“ Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any cultic place that you see,
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1 Kings 14 21
Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty one years old when he became king, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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John 4:20-22
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.”Jesus* said to her,“ Believe Me, woman, that a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
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Acts 7:48-50
However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:‘ Heaven is My throne, And the earth is the footstool of My feet; What kind of house will you build for Me?’ says the Lord,‘ Or what place is there for My rest?Was it not My hand that made all these things?’
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Numbers 7:89
Now when Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atoning cover that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; so He spoke to him.
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Exodus 15:2
The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
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1 Chronicles 22 1
Then David said,“ This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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Exodus 25:22
There I will meet with you; and from above the atoning cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about every commandment that I will give you for the sons of Israel.
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.
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Revelation 14:1
Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.
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Joshua 9:27
But on that day Joshua made them gatherers of firewood and labor to draw water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He would choose.