Deuteronomy 12:5
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5 But you shall seek (A)the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation[a] there. There you shall go,
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- Deuteronomy 12:5 Or name as its habitation
Deuteronomy 12:11
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11 then to (A)the 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, (B)your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 26:2
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2 (A)you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall (B)go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.
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2 Chronicles 7:12
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12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer (A)and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy 16:2
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2 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or (A)the herd, (B)at the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there.
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1 Kings 8:29
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29 (A)that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, (B)‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.
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Isaiah 66:1-2
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The Humble and Contrite in Spirit
66 (A)Thus says the Lord:
(B)“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
2 (C)All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
(D)But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
Psalm 132:13-14
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13 For the Lord has (A)chosen Zion;
he has (B)desired it for his dwelling place:
14 “This is my (C)resting place forever;
here I will (D)dwell, for I have desired it.
Psalm 87:2-3
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2 the Lord (A)loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3 (B)Glorious things of you are spoken,
O (C)city of God. Selah
Psalm 78:68
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68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he (A)loves.
Deuteronomy 12:13
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13 (A)Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,
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Colossians 2:9
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9 For (A)in him the whole fullness of deity dwells (B)bodily,
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1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, (A)heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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1 Kings 8:20
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20 Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, (A)as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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1 Kings 8:16
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16 (A)‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, (B)that my name might be there. (C)But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
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Hebrews 12:22
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22 But you have come to (A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, (B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to (C)innumerable angels in festal gathering,
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Ephesians 2:20-22
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20 (A)built on the foundation of the (B)apostles and prophets, (C)Christ Jesus himself being (D)the cornerstone, 21 (E)in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into (F)a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him (G)you also are being built together (H)into a dwelling place for God by[a] the Spirit.
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1 Chronicles 22:1
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22 Then David said, (A)“Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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1 Kings 14:21
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Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21 (A)Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, (B)the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. (C)His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
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Joshua 18:1
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Allotment of the Remaining Land
18 Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at (A)Shiloh and set up (B)the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
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Numbers 7:89
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89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting (A)to speak with the Lord, he heard (B)the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.
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Acts 7:48-50
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48 (A)Yet the Most High does not dwell (B)in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
49 (C)“‘Heaven is my throne,
(D)and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?’
John 4:20-22
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20 (A)Our fathers worshiped on (B)this mountain, but you say that (C)in Jerusalem is (D)the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, (E)“Woman, believe me, (F)the hour is coming when (G)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 (H)You worship what you do not know; (I)we worship what we know, for (J)salvation is (K)from the Jews.
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Joshua 9:27
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27 But Joshua made them that day (A)cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, (B)in the place that he should choose.
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Exodus 25:22
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22 (A)There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from (B)between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
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