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.

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.

^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.

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.

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.

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.

True Worship and False

66 Thus says the Lord: