Exodus 20:24
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24 An altar of (A)earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, (B)your sheep and your oxen. In every (C)place where I [a]record My name I will come to you, and I will (D)bless you.
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- Exodus 20:24 cause My name to be remembered
Deuteronomy 12:5
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5 “But you shall seek the (A)place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His (B)dwelling[a] place; and there you shall go.
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- Deuteronomy 12:5 home
2 Chronicles 6:6
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6 (A)Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I (B)have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
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Psalm 132:13-14
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13 (A)For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His [a]dwelling place:
14 “This(B) is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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- Psalm 132:13 home
1 Kings 9:3
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3 And the Lord said to him: (A)“I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built (B)to put My name there forever, (C)and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
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2 Chronicles 7:16
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16 For now (A)I have chosen and [a]sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and [b]My eyes and [c]My heart will be there perpetually.
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- 2 Chronicles 7:16 set apart
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 My attention
- 2 Chronicles 7:16 My concern
Deuteronomy 12:11
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11 then there will be the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
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11 (A)You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.
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2 Chronicles 12:13
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The End of Rehoboam’s Reign(A)
13 Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now (B)Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, (C)the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. His mother’s name was Naamah, an (D)Ammonitess.
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Deuteronomy 26:2
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2 (A)that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and (B)go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide.
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Ezra 6:12
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12 And may the God who causes His (A)name to dwell there destroy any king or people who put their hand to alter it, or to destroy this [a]house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius issue a decree; let it be done diligently.
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- Ezra 6:12 Temple
Numbers 6:24-27
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24 “The Lord (A)bless you and (B)keep you;
25 The Lord (C)make His face shine upon you,
And (D)be gracious to you;
26 (E)The Lord [a]lift up His countenance upon you,
And (F)give you peace.” ’
27 (G)“So they shall [b]put My name on the children of Israel, and (H)I will bless them.”
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- Numbers 6:26 Look upon you with favor
- Numbers 6:27 invoke
1 Kings 8:29
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29 that Your eyes may be open toward this [a]temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, (A)‘My name shall be (B)there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes (C)toward this place.
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- 1 Kings 8:29 Lit. house
Matthew 18:20
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20 For where two or three are gathered (A)together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
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John 4:20-24
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20 Our fathers worshiped on (A)this mountain, and you Jews say that in (B)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming (C)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship (D)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for (E)salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will (F)worship the Father in (G)spirit (H)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 (I)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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1 Kings 8:43
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43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, (A)that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and (B)fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.
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Deuteronomy 16:5-6
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5 “You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; 6 but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover (A)at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 14:23
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23 (A)And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of (B)the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.
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Psalm 74:7
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7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 (A)but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, (B)though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’
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2 Samuel 6:12
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12 Now it was told King David, saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” (A)So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with gladness.
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Malachi 1:11
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Jeremiah 7:10-12
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10 (A)and then come and stand before Me in this house (B)which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? 11 Has (C)this house, which is called by My name, become a (D)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
12 “But go now to (E)My place which was in Shiloh, (F)where I set My name at the first, and see (G)what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
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Psalm 78:68
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68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion (A)which He loved.
Deuteronomy 12:21
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21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from (A)you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the Lord has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.
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