Deuteronomy 12:5
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5 “But you shall seek the (A)place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His (B)dwelling[a] place; and there you shall go.
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- Deuteronomy 12:5 home
Deuteronomy 12:11
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11 then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 26:2
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2 (A)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and (B)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.
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2 Chronicles 7:12
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God’s Second Appearance to Solomon(A)
12 Then the Lord (B)appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, (C)and have chosen this (D)place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy 16:2
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2 Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and (A)the herd, in the (B)place where the Lord chooses to put His name.
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1 Kings 8:29
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29 that Your eyes may be open toward this [a]temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, (A)‘My name shall be (B)there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes (C)toward this place.
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- 1 Kings 8:29 Lit. house
Isaiah 66:1-2
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True Worship and False
66 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
(B)“But on this one will I look:
(C)On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
Psalm 132:13-14
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13 (A)For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His [a]dwelling place:
14 “This(B) is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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Psalm 87:2-3
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2 (A)The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 (B)Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God! Selah
Psalm 78:68
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68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion (A)which He loved.
Deuteronomy 12:13
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13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;
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Colossians 2:9
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9 For (A)in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead [a]bodily;
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- Colossians 2:9 in bodily form
1 Kings 8:27
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27 “But (A)will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the (B)heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
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1 Kings 8:20
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20 So the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have [a]filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, (A)as the Lord promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
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1 Kings 8:16
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16 ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that (A)My name might be there; but I chose (B)David to be over My people Israel.’
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Hebrews 12:22
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22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
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Ephesians 2:20-22
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20 having been (A)built (B)on the foundation of the (C)apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being (D)the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into (E)a holy temple in the Lord, 22 (F)in whom you also are being built together for a (G)dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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1 Chronicles 22:1
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David Prepares to Build the Temple
22 Then David said, (A)“This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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1 Kings 14:21
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Rehoboam Reigns in Judah(A)
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. (B)Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city (C)which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. (D)His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
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Joshua 18:1
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The Remainder of the Land Divided
18 Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together (A)at Shiloh, and (B)set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.
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Numbers 7:89
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89 Now when Moses went into the tabernacle of meeting (A)to speak with Him, he heard (B)the voice of One speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from (C)between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.
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Acts 7:48-50
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48 “However, (A)the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
49 ‘Heaven(B) is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of My rest?
50 Has My hand not (C)made all these things?’
John 4:20-22
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20 Our fathers worshiped on (A)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (B)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (C)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (D)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (E)salvation is of the Jews.
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Joshua 9:27
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27 And that day Joshua made them (A)woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, (B)in the place which He would choose, even to this day.
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Exodus 25:22
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22 And (A)there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from (B)between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
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