You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for
For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you ha
For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be the
then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your bu
and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving y
Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he
‘May the LORD bless you and keep you;
May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or t
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so
For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then a
And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of
but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthe
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd
and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue wit
His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it
May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your