Exodus 20:24
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24 You need make for me only an altar of earth and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your offerings of well-being, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:5
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5 But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes as his habitation to put his name there. You shall go there,(A)
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2 Chronicles 6:6
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6 but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’(A)
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Psalm 132:13-14
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13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his habitation:(A)
14 “This is my resting place forever;
here I will reside, for I have desired it.
1 Kings 9:3
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3 The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:16
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16 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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Deuteronomy 16:11
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11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:11
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11 then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the Lord.(A)
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2 Chronicles 12:13
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Death of Rehoboam
13 So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.(A)
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Deuteronomy 26:2
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2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.(A)
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Ezra 6:12
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12 May the God who has established his name there overthrow any king or people who shall put forth a hand to alter this or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”(A)
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Matthew 18:20
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20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
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1 Kings 8:29
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29 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.(A)
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Numbers 6:24-27
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24 The Lord bless you and keep you;(A)
25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;(B)
26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.(C)
27 “So they shall put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”(D)
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Deuteronomy 14:23
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23 In the presence of the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose as a dwelling for his name, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, your wine, and your oil, as well as the firstlings of your herd and flock, so that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.(A)
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John 4:20-24
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20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you[a] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”(A) 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you[b] will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.(B) 22 You[c] worship what you[d] do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.(C) 23 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.(D) 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”(E)
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Psalm 74:7
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7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.(A)
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’(A)
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1 Kings 8:43
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43 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and do whatever the foreigners ask of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and so they may know that your name has been invoked on this house that I have built.(A)
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Deuteronomy 16:5-6
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5 You are not permitted to offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you. 6 But at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name, only there shall you offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, the time of day when you departed from Egypt.(A)
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Jeremiah 7:10-12
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10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?(A) 11 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? I, too, am watching, says the Lord.(B) 12 Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.(C)
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Psalm 78:68
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68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(A)
2 Samuel 6:12
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12 It was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing,(A)
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1 Timothy 2:8
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8 I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument,
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Malachi 1:11
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11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering, for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.(A)
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