Exodus 20:24
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24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. (A)In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and (B)bless you.
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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
2 Chronicles 6:6
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6 (A)but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, (B)and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
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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.
1 Kings 9:3
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3 And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, (A)by putting my name there forever. (B)My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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2 Chronicles 7:16
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16 (A)For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
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11 And (A)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.
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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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2 Chronicles 12:13
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13 (A)So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and 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.
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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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Ezra 6:12
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12 May the God (A)who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”
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Numbers 6:24-27
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24 The Lord (A)bless you and (B)keep you;
25 the Lord (C)make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord (D)lift up his countenance[a] upon you and give you peace.
27 (E)“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
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- Numbers 6:26 Or face
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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Matthew 18:20
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20 For where two or three are (A)gathered in my name, (B)there am I among them.”
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John 4:20-24
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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. 23 But (L)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father (M)in spirit and (N)truth, for the Father (O)is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Deuteronomy 16:5-6
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5 You may not 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, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 14:23
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23 And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, (A)you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, (B)and the firstborn of your herd and flock, (C)that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
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Psalm 74:7
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7 They (A)set your sanctuary on fire;
they (B)profaned (C)the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
1 Kings 8:43
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43 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order (A)that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and (B)fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
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Psalm 78:68
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68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he (A)loves.
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 (A)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, (B)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them (C)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
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2 Samuel 6:12
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12 And 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.” (A)So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom (B)to the city of David with rejoicing.
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Malachi 1:11
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11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name (A)will be[a] great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name (B)will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
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- Malachi 1:11 Or is (three times in verse 11; also verse 14)
Jeremiah 7:10-12
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10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (A)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 (B)Has this house, (C)which is called by my name, (D)become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord. 12 Go now to (E)my place that was in Shiloh, (F)where I made my name dwell at first, and (G)see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
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1 Timothy 2:8
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8 I desire then that (A)in every place the men should pray, (B)lifting (C)holy hands without anger or quarreling;
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