1 Chronicles 22:1

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“Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.””

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BSBPD

“Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Chronicles 22:1 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 28:17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
  2. Deuteronomy 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.
  3. Deuteronomy 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.
  4. Deuteronomy 12:14you 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.
  5. 2 Samuel 24:18And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
  6. 2 Kings 18:22But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  7. 1 Chronicles 21:18Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  8. 2 Chronicles 3:1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  9. 2 Chronicles 6:5‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
  10. 2 Chronicles 32:12Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
  11. Psalms 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
  12. Psalms 78:67He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
  13. Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
  14. Matthew 25:16The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
  15. John 4:20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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