He was afraid and said, ‘What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.’
1 Chronicles 22:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then David said, ‘This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THEN DAVID said, Here shall be the house of the Lord God, and here the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. American Standard Version (1901) Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel. Common English Bible Then David said, “This is where the LORD God’s temple will be, along with Israel’s altar for entirely burned offerings.” Catholic Public Domain Version And David said, "This is the house of God, and this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then David said: This is the house of God, and this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel. |
He was afraid and said, ‘What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.’
Gad came to David that day and said to him, ‘Go up and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.’
Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem’ ? ”
but David could not go before it to enquire of God, because he was terrified of the sword of the Lord’s angel.
Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove his high places and his altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it’?
the man who had received five talents went, put them to work, and earned five more.
then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.
You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.