But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name(A) there for his dwelling.(B) To that place you must go;

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“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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  1. Deuteronomy 12:5 home

except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[a](A) of your departure from Egypt.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:6 Or down, at the time of day

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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11 And rejoice(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name(B)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites(C) in your towns, and the foreigners,(D) the fatherless and the widows living among you.(E)

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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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take some of the firstfruits(A) of all that you produce from the soil of the land 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(B)

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(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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The Lord said to him:

“I have heard(A) the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name(B) there forever. My eyes(C) and my heart will always be there.

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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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He built altars(A) in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”(B)

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(A)He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (B)“In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

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He took the carved Asherah pole(A) he had made and put it in the temple,(B) of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name(C) forever.

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He even set a carved image of [a]Asherah that he had made, in the [b]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (A)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

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  1. 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
  2. 2 Kings 21:7 Temple

But now I have chosen Jerusalem(A) for my Name(B) to be there, and I have chosen David(C) to rule my people Israel.’

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(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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13 King Rehoboam established(A) himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name.(B) His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

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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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12 May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there,(A) overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem.

I Darius(B) have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.

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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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  1. Ezra 6:12 Temple