Deuteronomy 18:6

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

Psalm 27:4

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

Psalm 84:10

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

Psalm 84:5

How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

Numbers 35:5

“You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

Deuteronomy 12:11

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.

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 12:5

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 16:2

You must sacrifice the Passover animal (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 18:7

and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

1 Timothy 3:1

This saying is trustworthy: “If someone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.”

1 Peter 5:2

Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.