Deuteronomy 12:13

New Century Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 15:34

and he did what the Lord said was wrong. Jeroboam had led the people of Israel to sin, and Baasha sinned in the same way as Jeroboam.

1 Kings 3:2

The Temple for the worship of the Lord had not yet been finished, so people were still sacrificing at altars in many places of worship.

2 Chronicles 15:17

But the places of worship to gods were not removed from Judah. Even so, Asa was faithful all his life.

Deuteronomy 12:11

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.

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 12:5

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 12:6

and bring to that place your burnt offerings and sacrifices; bring a tenth of what you gain and your special gifts; bring what you have promised and the special gifts you want to give the Lord, and bring the first animals born to your herds and flocks.

Joshua 22:15

These leaders went to Gilead to talk to the people of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh. They said:

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.”