One Place for Worship
These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess. 1Ki 8:40Job 7:1Deu 12:19Deu 4:1-2Deu 4:19Deu 4:45Deu 4:5Deu 4:9-10
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. Deu 7:52Ki 16:4Num 33:51-522Ki 17:10-11Deu 7:25-26Exo 34:12-17Ezk 20:28-29Jer 3:6 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place. Jdg 2:2Num 33:52Zec 13:2Psa 16:4Deu 7:5Exo 23:131Ki 15:132Ch 19:3 You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way. Lev 20:23Deu 20:18Deu 12:30-31Deu 16:21-22
Instead, 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. Deu 12:112Ch 7:12Deu 26:2Deu 16:21Ki 8:29Deu 12:13Psa 132:13-14Psa 78:68 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks. Deu 15:19-20Deu 12:17Deu 14:22-26Deu 26:2Ezk 20:40Lev 17:3-9Lev 27:32-33Luk 11:42 There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you. Deu 12:18Deu 14:26Lev 23:40Deu 12:12Php 4:4Psa 128:1-2Deu 14:23Deu 15:20
You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes. Jdg 21:25Jdg 17:6Pro 21:2Act 7:42Num 15:39Amo 5:25 For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you. 1Ki 8:56Deu 25:19Psa 95:11Heb 4:8-9Mic 2:101Ch 23:251Pe 1:3-4
When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely, Ezk 34:28Jer 33:11Deu 11:31Deu 3:27Deu 4:221Ki 4:251Sa 7:12Deu 33:12 then 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. Deu 12:5Deu 15:20Deu 16:2-8Deu 17:8Deu 18:6Jhn 4:20-231Ki 8:131Ki 8:29 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you. Deu 12:7Deu 10:9Deu 26:12Deu 12:19Deu 14:291Ki 8:662Ch 29:362Ch 30:21-26
Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see; 1Ki 15:342Ch 15:17Deu 12:6Lev 17:2-51Ki 12:28-32 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you. 2Co 5:19Deu 12:11Deu 12:5Heb 10:19-22Heb 13:15Psa 5:7Psa 9:11
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer, Deu 14:5Deu 12:20-23Deu 14:26Deu 15:22-23Lev 17:3-5 but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Gen 9:4Deu 15:23Act 15:29Deu 12:23-241Ti 4:4Lev 17:10-13Lev 7:26-27
Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. Deu 26:14Deu 12:6Deu 14:22-29Deu 12:11Deu 12:26Deu 26:12Lev 27:30-32Num 18:21-24 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do, Deu 12:7Deu 14:23Deu 12:51Co 10:31Act 16:34Act 2:46Deu 12:11-12Deu 12:19 and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land. 2Ch 31:4-21Neh 10:34-391Co 9:10-142Ch 11:13-14Deu 14:27-29
When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want. Deu 19:8Deu 11:24Exo 34:241Ch 4:10Gen 28:14Deu 12:15Exo 23:31Gen 15:18-21 If 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. Deu 12:51Ki 14:212Ch 12:13Deu 12:11Deu 12:15Deu 14:23-24Deu 16:11Deu 16:6 Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. Deu 12:15-16 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Lev 17:11Gen 9:4Lev 17:13-14Deu 12:16Lev 3:16-17Mat 20:28Rev 5:9 You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water. Deu 12:16Deu 15:23 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD. 1Ki 11:38Deu 4:40Exo 15:26Isa 3:10Deu 13:18Deu 6:18Deu 12:28Deu 5:16
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose. Num 18:19Num 5:9-101Sa 1:21-24Deu 12:11Deu 12:17-18Deu 12:21Deu 12:6Gen 28:20 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat. Lev 1:13Lev 1:9Lev 17:11Lev 1:5Lev 4:30 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God. Deu 12:25Deu 4:40Jhn 15:10Jhn 15:142Ch 7:17Deu 24:8Exo 34:11Ezk 37:24
A Warning against Idolatry
(Deuteronomy 4:15–31; Ezekiel 6:1–7)
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land, Jos 23:4Deu 19:1Deu 9:3Exo 23:23Psa 78:55 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” Ezk 20:32Jer 10:2Deu 7:16Eph 4:17Exo 23:31-33Ezk 20:28Psa 106:34-381Pe 4:3-4
You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods. Jer 32:352Ki 17:15-172Ki 21:2Deu 18:9-10Jer 7:31Deu 12:4Deu 9:5Exo 23:2
See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it. Deu 4:2Rev 22:18-19Jos 1:7Pro 30:6Deu 13:18Mat 28:20