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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Genesis 28:17He was afraid, and said, “How awesome this place is! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Deuteronomy 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.
2 Samuel 24:18Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
1 Chronicles 21:18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 6:5‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;
Psalms 78:60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he 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 →