Exodus 20:24

New English Translation

‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be honored I will come to you and I will bless you.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

2 Samuel 6:12

David was told, “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

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.

1 Kings 8:43

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

2 Kings 5:17

Naaman said, “If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the Lord.

2 Chronicles 12:13

King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:16

Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

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!”

Nehemiah 1:9

But if you repent and obey my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Psalm 101:2

I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.

Psalm 122:2

Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 128:5

May the Lord bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion!

Psalm 74:7

They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.

Psalm 76:2

He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.

Psalm 78:68

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

Exodus 10:25

But Moses said, “Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the Lord our God?

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Exodus 20:25

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

Exodus 24:4

and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones – according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord.

Exodus 27:1

“You are to make the altar of acacia wood, seven feet six inches long, and seven feet six inches wide; the altar is to be square, and its height is to be four feet six inches.

Isaiah 64:5

You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

Leviticus 17:9

but does not bring it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to offer it to the Lord – that person will be cut off from his people.

Malachi 1:11

For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 18:20

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

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 12:21

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 12:5

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 16:11

You shall rejoice before him – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

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 7:13

He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.