Deuteronomy 12:5

Good News Translation

Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:21

Solomon's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.

1 Kings 8:16

‘From the time I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen any city in all the land of Israel in which a temple should be built where I would be worshiped. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.’”

1 Kings 8:20

“And now the Lord has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel, and I have built the Temple for the worship of the Lord God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:27

“But can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?

1 Kings 8:29

Watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have chosen to be worshiped. Hear me when I face this Temple and pray.

2 Kings 18:22

The Assyrian official went on, “Or will you tell me that you are relying on the Lord your God? It was the Lord's shrines and altars that Hezekiah destroyed, when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship only at the altar in Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 22:1

So David said, “This is where the Temple of the Lord God will be. Here is the altar where the people of Israel are to offer burnt offerings.”

2 Chronicles 7:12

the Lord appeared to him at night. He said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and I accept this Temple as the place where sacrifices are to be offered to me.

Ezra 3:2

and Joshua son of Jehozadak, his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, together with his relatives, rebuilt the altar of the God of Israel, so that they could burn sacrifices on it according to the instructions written in the Law of Moses, the man of God.

Ezra 6:12

May the God who chose Jerusalem as the place where he is to be worshiped overthrow any king or nation that defies this command and tries to destroy the Temple there. I, Darius, have commanded. My command is to be fully obeyed.”

Ezra 7:17

“You are to spend this money carefully and buy bulls, rams, lambs, grain, and wine and offer them on the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:9

But then if you turn back to me and do what I have commanded you, I will bring you back to the place where I have chosen to be worshiped, even though you are scattered to the ends of the earth.’

Psalm 78:68

Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is my strong defender; he is the one who has saved me. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will sing about his greatness.

Exodus 20:24

Make an altar of earth for me, and on it sacrifice your sheep and your cattle as offerings to be completely burned and as fellowship offerings. In every place that I set aside for you to worship me, I will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 25:22

I will meet you there, and from above the lid between the two winged creatures I will give you all my laws for the people of Israel.

Jeremiah 26:2

the Lord said to me, “Stand in the court of the Temple and proclaim all I have commanded you to say to the people who come from the towns of Judah to worship there. Do not leave out anything.

Jeremiah 7:12

Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

Jeremiah 7:14

And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.

Numbers 7:89

When Moses went into the Tent to talk with the Lord, he heard the Lord speaking to him from above the lid on the Covenant Box, between the two winged creatures.

Deuteronomy 12:11

The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:13

You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;

Deuteronomy 12:18

You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the Lord your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done.

Deuteronomy 12:4

“Do not worship the Lord your God in the way that these people worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 14:23

Then go to the one place where the Lord your God has chosen to be worshiped; and there in his presence eat the tithes of your grain, wine, and olive oil, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. Do this so that you may learn to honor the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 14:24

If the place of worship is too far from your home for you to carry there the tithe of the produce that the Lord has blessed you with, then do this:

Deuteronomy 15:20

Each year you and your family are to eat them in the Lord's presence at the one place of worship.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Be joyful in the Lord's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.

Deuteronomy 16:15

Honor the Lord your God by celebrating this festival for seven days at the one place of worship. Be joyful, because the Lord has blessed your harvest and your work.

Deuteronomy 16:2

Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:7

Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.

Deuteronomy 17:8

“It may be that some cases will be too difficult for the local judges to decide, such as certain cases of property rights or of bodily injury or those cases that involve a distinction between murder and manslaughter. When this happens, go to the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 18:6

“Any Levite who wants to may come from any town in Israel to the one place of worship

Deuteronomy 26:2

each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.

Deuteronomy 31:11

Read it to the people of Israel when they come to worship the Lord your God at the one place of worship.

Colossians 2:9

For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity,

Hebrews 12:22

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels.

Joshua 18:1

After they had conquered the land, the entire community of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of the Lord's presence.

Joshua 22:11

The rest of the people of Israel were told, “Listen! The people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh have built an altar at Geliloth, on our side of the Jordan!”

Joshua 9:27

But at the same time he made them slaves, to cut wood and carry water for the people of Israel and for the Lord's altar. To this day they have continued to do this work in the place where the Lord has chosen to be worshiped.

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion; with him were 144,000 people who have his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.