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 12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
• Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• 2 Chr 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
• 1 Kgs 9:3Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
• 2 Chr 7:16For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
• Deut 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• Deut 26:2that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
• 2 Chr 12:13So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
• Num 6:24–27‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.
• Ezra 6:12May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
• 1 Kgs 8:29that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.
• Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
• 1 Kgs 8:43hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
• John 4:20–24Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
• Deut 14:23You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses, to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.
• Deut 16:5–6You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you;
• Ps 74:7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
• Neh 1:9but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
• 2 Sam 6:12King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Deut 12:21If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.
• Jer 7:10–12and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?
• Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
• Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• Ps 76:2His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
• Ps 128:5May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
• Lev 3:1–17“‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
• Lev 1:1–17Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
• Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• Ps 134:3May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.
• Deut 7:13He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

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