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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13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

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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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20 (A)You and your household shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place which the Lord chooses.

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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and (A)the herd, in the (B)place where the Lord chooses to put His name.

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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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“So if a Levite comes from any of your [a]gates, from where he (A)dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind (B)to the place which the Lord chooses,

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  1. Deuteronomy 18:6 towns

(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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29 Why do you (A)kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My (B)dwelling place, and honor your sons more than (C)Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?’

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(A)And behold, [a]I propose to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, (B)as the Lord spoke to my father David, saying, “Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for My name.”

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  1. 1 Kings 5:5 Lit. I am saying

16 ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that (A)My name might be there; but I chose (B)David to be over My people Israel.’

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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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Behold, (A)I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, (B)to burn before Him [a]sweet incense, for (C)the continual showbread, for (D)the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the (E)Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the [b]set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:4 Lit. incense of spices
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:4 appointed

(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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God’s Second Appearance to Solomon(A)

12 Then the Lord (B)appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, (C)and have chosen this (D)place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

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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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  1. 2 Chronicles 7:16 set apart
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:16 My attention
  3. 2 Chronicles 7:16 My concern

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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  1. Ezra 6:12 Temple

15 and whereas you are to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, (A)whose dwelling is in Jerusalem;

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Lord, (A)I have loved the habitation of Your house,
And the place [a]where Your glory dwells.

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  1. Psalm 26:8 Lit. of the tabernacle of Your glory

68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion (A)which He loved.

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12 And the Lord will (A)take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

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