John 4:20

Modern King James Version

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:3

And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your cry which you have made before Me. I have made this house which you have built holy, to put My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

1 Chronicles 21:26

And David built an altar there to Jehovah, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Jehovah. And He answered him from Heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Chronicles 22:1

Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have chosen Jerusalem, so that My name might be there, and now I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:12

And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, so that My name may be there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there forever.

Psalm 132:13

Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling-place.

Psalm 78:68

but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.

Isaiah 66:1

So says Jehovah, Heaven is My throne, and earth My footstool. Where, then, is the house that you build for Me? And where is the place of My rest?

Luke 9:53

And they did not receive Him, because His face was going toward Jerusalem.

John 4:12

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children and his cattle?

Deuteronomy 11:29

And it will be, when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 27:12

These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have come over Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.