Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his fathe
Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of O
And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of he
‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which
And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah
But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has remove
then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your bu
For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.