Deuteronomy 12:11

New Century Version

Then the Lord your God will choose a place where he is to be worshiped. To that place you must bring everything I tell you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your offerings of a tenth of what you gain, your special gifts, and all your best things you promised to the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:27

If the people continue going to the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices, they will want to be ruled again by Rehoboam. Then they will kill me and follow Rehoboam king of Judah.”

1 Kings 8:13

Lord, I have truly built a wonderful Temple for you—a place for you to live forever.”

1 Kings 8:16

‘Since the time I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel where a temple will be built for me. But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:29

Night and day please watch over this Temple where you have said, ‘I will be worshiped there.’ Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.

2 Kings 18:22

You might say, “We are depending on the Lord our God,” but Hezekiah destroyed the Lord’s altars and the places of worship. Hezekiah told Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only at this one altar in Jerusalem.”

1 Chronicles 22:1

David said, “The Temple of the Lord God and the altar for Israel’s burnt offerings will be built here.”

2 Chronicles 6:20

Day and night please watch over this Temple where you have said you would be worshiped. Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself to be a Temple for sacrifices.

Ezra 6:12

God has chosen Jerusalem as the place he is to be worshiped. May he punish any king or person who tries to change this order and destroy this Temple. I, Darius, have given this order. Let it be obeyed quickly and carefully.

Psalm 100:2

Serve the Lord with joy; come before him with singing.

Psalm 116:17

I will give you an offering to show thanks to you, and I will pray to the Lord.

Psalm 66:13

I will come to your Temple with burnt offerings. I will give you what I promised,

Psalm 78:68

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

Exodus 25:8

“The people must build a holy place for me so that I can live among them.

Exodus 29:45

I will live with the people of Israel and be their God.

Jeremiah 7:12

“ ‘You people of Judah, go now to the town of Shiloh, where I first made a place to be worshiped. See what I did to it because of the evil things the people of Israel had done.

Leviticus 17:4

when he should have brought the animal to the entrance of the Meeting Tent as a gift to the Lord in front of the Lord’s Holy Tent, he is guilty of killing. He has killed, and he must be cut off from the people.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Be careful that you don’t sacrifice your burnt offerings just anywhere you please.

Deuteronomy 12:14

Offer them only in the place the Lord will choose. He will choose a place in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

Eat these things when you are together with the Lord your God, in the place the Lord your God chooses to be worshiped. Everyone must do this: you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns. Rejoice in the Lord your God’s presence about the things you have worked for.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the Lord your God chooses a place where he is to be worshiped that is too far away from you, you may kill animals from your herds and flocks, which the Lord has given to you. I have commanded that you may do this. You may eat as much of them as you want in your own towns,

Deuteronomy 12:26

Take your holy things and the things you have promised to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose.

Deuteronomy 12:5

but look for the place the Lord your God will choose—a place among your tribes where he is to be worshiped. Go there,

Deuteronomy 14:23

Take it to the place the Lord your God will choose where he is to be worshiped. There, where you will be together with the Lord, eat the tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and eat the animals born first to your herds and flocks. Do this so that you will learn to respect the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 15:19

Save all the first male animals born to your herds and flocks. They are for the Lord your God. Do not work the first calf born to your oxen, and do not cut off the wool from the first lamb born to your sheep.

Deuteronomy 15:20

Each year you and your family are to eat these animals in the presence of the Lord your God, in the place he will choose to be worshiped.

Deuteronomy 17:8

Some cases that come before you, such as murder, quarreling, or attack, may be too difficult to judge. Take these cases to the place the Lord your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 18:6

If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he lives and comes to the place the Lord will choose, because he wants to serve the Lord there,

Deuteronomy 23:16

Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him.

Deuteronomy 26:2

you must take some of the first harvest of crops that grow from the land the Lord your God is giving you. Put the food in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to be worshiped.

Joshua 18:1

All of the Israelites gathered together at Shiloh where they set up the Meeting Tent. The land was now under their control.

Joshua 22:11

The other Israelites still at Shiloh heard about the altar these three tribes built at the border of Canaan at Geliloth, near the Jordan River on Israel’s side.

Joshua 22:16

“All the Israelites ask you: ‘Why did you turn against the God of Israel by building an altar for yourselves? You know that this is against God’s law.

Joshua 22:23

If we broke God’s law, we ask the Lord himself to punish us. We did not build this altar to offer burnt offerings or grain and fellowship offerings.

Joshua 22:27

This altar is proof to you and us and to all our children who will come after us that we worship the Lord with our whole burnt offerings, grain, and fellowship offerings. This was so your children would not say to our children, ‘You are not the Lord’s.’

Joshua 22:29

“Truly, we don’t want to be against the Lord or to stop following him by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices. We know the only true altar to the Lord our God is in front of the Holy Tent.”

Joshua 9:27

but he made the Gibeonites slaves. They cut wood and carried water for the Israelites, and they did it for the altar of the Lord—wherever he chose it to be. They are still doing this today.

1 Samuel 1:21

Every year Elkanah went with his whole family to Shiloh to offer sacrifices and to keep the promise he had made to God.