Deuteronomy 12:14

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord will choose his special place among your tribes. Offer your burnt offerings and do everything else I told you only in that place.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 5:19

I mean that God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold people guilty for their sins. And he gave us this message of peace to tell people.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then the Lord your God will choose a place that will be the home for his name. You must bring everything I command you to that place. Bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, one-tenth of your crops and animals, your special gifts, and any gifts that you promised to give to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:5

The Lord your God will choose a special place among your tribes. That will be the home for his name. You must go to that place to worship him.

Hebrews 13:15

So through Jesus we should never stop offering our sacrifice to God. That sacrifice is our praise, coming from lips that speak his name.

Psalm 9:11

Sing praises to the Lord, who sits as King in Zion. Tell the nations about the great things he has done.

Psalm 5:7

But by your great mercy, I can enter your house. I can worship in your holy Temple with fear and respect for you.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be sure you don’t offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“Whenever you want to eat meat, you can enjoy that blessing from the Lord your God wherever you live. You can butcher the animal just as you do gazelles and deer, and anyone, clean or unclean, can eat it.

Leviticus 17:3

Any one of you Israelites might kill a bull, a lamb, or a goat. You might be in the camp or outside the camp.

Leviticus 17:4

It doesn’t matter; you must bring that animal to the entrance of the Meeting Tent. You must give a part of that animal as a gift to the Lord. You spilled blood, so you must take a gift to the Lord’s Holy Tent. If you don’t take part of the animal as a gift to the Lord, you must be separated from your people!

Deuteronomy 12:18

You must eat these offerings only in his presence at the special place that the Lord your God will choose. You must go there and eat together with your sons, your daughters, all your servants, and the Levites living in your towns. Enjoy yourselves there with the Lord your God. Enjoy what you have worked for.

Deuteronomy 14:23

Then you must go to the place the Lord chooses to be the home for his name. You will go there to be with the Lord your God. At that place you will eat the tenth of your crops—one-tenth of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the first animals born in your herds and flocks. In this way you will always remember to respect the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 15:20

Every year you must take these animals to the place the Lord your God will choose. There with the Lord, you and your family will eat these animals.

Deuteronomy 16:2

You must go to the place the Lord your God will choose to be the home for his name. There you must offer the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord. You must offer the cattle and goats.

Deuteronomy 17:8

“There might be some problems that are too hard for your courts to judge. It might be a murder case or an argument between two people. Or it might be a fight in which someone was hurt. When these cases are argued in your towns, your judges there might not be able to decide what is right. Then you must go to the special place that the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“Any Levite living in any town anywhere in Israel may leave his home and come to the Lord’s special place. He may do this anytime he wants.

Deuteronomy 31:11

At that time all the Israelites must come to meet with the Lord your God at the special place he will choose. Then you must read the teachings to the people so that they can hear them.

Joshua 9:27

He made them slaves of the Israelites. They cut wood and carried water for the Israelites and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. They are still slaves today.

Joshua 22:29

“The truth is, we don’t want to be against the Lord. We don’t want to stop following him now. We know that the only true altar is the one that is in front of the Holy Tent. That altar belongs to the Lord our God.”

1 Kings 8:29

In the past you said, ‘I will be honored there.’ So please watch over this Temple, night and day. And please listen to my prayer as I turn toward this Temple and pray to you.

2 Kings 18:22

Maybe you will say, “We trust the Lord our God to help us.” But I know that Hezekiah destroyed the altars and high places where people worshiped the Lord. Hezekiah told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only at this one altar here in Jerusalem.”

1 Chronicles 22:1

David said, “The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for burning offerings for the Israelites will be built here.”