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Genesis 12:6-7
Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh.( At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“ To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
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Genesis 33:18-20
After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 27:12
“ When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
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Deuteronomy 11:29
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.
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Deuteronomy 12:5-11
Instead, turn to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.You will eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.“ You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own sight.Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 7 12
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice.
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2 Chronicles 6 6
But I have chosen Jerusalem so that my name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.”
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Psalms 132:13
For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his home:
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Joshua 8:33-35
All Israel— resident alien and citizen alike— with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark of the LORD’s covenant facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded earlier concerning blessing the people of Israel.Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law— the blessings as well as the curses— according to all that is written in the book of the law.There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before the entire assembly of Israel, including the women, the dependents, and the resident aliens who lived among them.
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Luke 9:53
But they did not welcome him, because he determined to journey to Jerusalem.
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1 Chronicles 22 1
Then David said,“ This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 7 16
And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
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1 Chronicles 21 26
He built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and he answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
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Psalms 78:68
He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
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Psalms 87:1-2
The city he founded is on the holy mountains.The LORD loves Zion’s city gates more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
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2 Kings 17 26-2 Kings 17 33
The settlers said to the king of Assyria,“ The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.”Then the king of Assyria issued a command:“ Send back one of the priests you deported. Have him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the god of the land.”So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear the LORD.But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.They feared the LORD, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.They feared the LORD, but they also worshiped their own gods according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.
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Judges 9:6-7
Then all the citizens of Shechem and of Beth-millo gathered together and proceeded to make Abimelech king at the oak of the pillar in Shechem.When they told Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and called to them: Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, and may God listen to you:
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1 Kings 9 3
The LORD said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
