1 Chronicles 22:1
And David says, “This is the house of YHWH God, and this [is] the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.”
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Genesis 28:17and he fears and says, “How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.”
Deuteronomy 12:11then it has been, the place on which your God YHWH fixes to cause His Name to dwell there, there you bring in all that which I am commanding you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the raised-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which you vow to YHWH.
2 Samuel 24:18And Gad comes to David on that day and says to him, “Go up, raise an altar to YHWH in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite”;
1 Chronicles 21:18And the messenger of YHWH commanded to Gad to say to David, “Surely David goes up to raise an altar to YHWH in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.”
2 Chronicles 6:5From the day that I brought out My people from the land of Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of any of the tribes of Israel to build a house for my name being there, and I have not fixed on a man to be leader over My people Israel;
Psalms 78:60And He leaves the Dwelling Place of Shiloh, || The tent He had placed among men,
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 22:1
"Out of the eater comes forth meat." It was upon occasion of the terrible judgment inflicted on Israel for the sin of David that God gave intimation of the setting up of another altar, and of the place where he would have the temple to be built, upon which David was excited with great vigour to make preparation for that great work, wherein, though he had long since designed it, it should seem, he had, of late, grown remiss, till awakened by the alarm of that judgment. The tokens of God's favour he received after… Read the whole commentary →