TSK · Exodus 20:24

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

¶ Introduction to the Sacrificial Regulations Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent:

“The LORD bless you and protect you;

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you,

you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!”

They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.

He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.

Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem.

Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say,“We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!

For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”