Exodus 20:24

God instructs Israel to build a simple earthen altar for sacrifices, promising to come and bless wherever He records His name. God appoints how He is to be approached and where He will bless.

Cross-references · 33

• Deut 12:5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
• Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
• 2 Chr 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
• 1 Kgs 9:3And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
• 2 Chr 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
• Deut 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
• Deut 16:11and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
• Deut 26:2you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
• 2 Chr 12:13Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
• Num 6:24–27‘May the LORD bless you and keep you;
• Ezra 6:12May God, who has caused His Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to alter this decree or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued the decree. Let it be carried out with diligence.
• 1 Kgs 8:29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
• Matt 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
• 1 Kgs 8:43then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
• John 4:20–24Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
• Deut 14:23And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.
• Deut 16:5–6You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Ps 74:7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
• Neh 1:9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
• 2 Sam 6:12Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.
• Mal 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Deut 12:21If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
• Jer 7:10–12and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
• Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Ps 78:68But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
• 1 Tim 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
• Ps 76:2His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
• Ps 128:5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,
• Lev 3:1–17“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
• Lev 1:1–17Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
• Gen 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
• Ps 134:3May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.
• Deut 7:13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

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