Deuteronomy 12:11

New English Translation

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:27

If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem, their loyalty could shift to their former master, King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

1 Kings 8:13

O Lord, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

1 Kings 8:16

He told David, ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:29

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

2 Kings 18:22

Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

1 Chronicles 22:1

David then said, “This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

2 Chronicles 6:20

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

2 Chronicles 7:12

the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.

Ezra 6:12

May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”

Psalm 100:2

Worship the Lord with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing!

Psalm 116:17

I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the Lord.

Psalm 66:13

I will enter your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you,

Psalm 78:68

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

Exodus 25:8

Let them make for me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them.

Exodus 29:45

I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God,

Jeremiah 7:12

So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.

Leviticus 17:4

but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.

Deuteronomy 12:13

Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

Deuteronomy 12:14

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 12:26

Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the Lord will choose.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

Deuteronomy 14:23

In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always.

Deuteronomy 15:19

You must set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 15:20

You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

Deuteronomy 18:6

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses

Deuteronomy 23:16

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 26:2

you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 31:11

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing.

Joshua 18:1

The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,

Joshua 22:11

The Israelites received this report: “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

Joshua 22:16

“The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord.

Joshua 22:23

If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the Lord by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the Lord himself will punish us.

Joshua 22:27

but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’

Joshua 22:29

Far be it from us to rebel against the Lord by turning back today from following after the Lord by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the Lord our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

Joshua 9:27

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

1 Samuel 1:21

This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,