⁴ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way.^{(A) 5} But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name^(B) there for his dwelling.^(C) To that place you must go; ⁶ there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes^(D) and special gifts, what you have vowed^(E) to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.^{(F) 7} There, in the presence^(G) of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice^(H) in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

¹¹ Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name^(A)—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord.^{(B) 12} And there rejoice^(C) before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites^(D) from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance^(E) of their own. ¹³ Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.^{(F) 14} Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose^(G) in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

³⁶ I will give one tribe^(A) to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp^(B) before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.

Rehoboam King of Judah^(A)

²¹ Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.^(B)