1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ³  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ⁴  obey ⁵  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ⁶ 

1 Kings 8:1

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

8:1 ⁷ Then Solomon convened in Jerusalem ⁸  Israel’s elders, all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families, so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the Lord’s covenant from the city of David (that is, Zion). ⁹ 

1 Kings 11:36

11:36 I will leave ¹⁰  his son one tribe so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me ¹¹  in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as my home. ¹² 

Exodus 20:24

20:24 ‘You must make for me an altar made of earth, ¹³  and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, ¹⁴  your sheep and your cattle. In every place ¹⁵  where I cause my name to be honored ¹⁶  I will come to you and I will bless you.

Deuteronomy 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ¹⁷  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ¹⁸  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 16:2

16:2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal ²⁰  (from the flock or the herd) to the Lord your God in the place where he ²¹  chooses to locate his name.

Deuteronomy 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ²²  in the evening in ²³  the place where he ²⁴  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 26:2

26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he ²⁵  chooses to locate his name. ²⁶ 

Deuteronomy 26:2

26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he ²⁷  chooses to locate his name. ²⁸ 

Deuteronomy 21:4

21:4 and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, ²⁹  to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. ³⁰  There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.

Deuteronomy 21:7

21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ³¹  witnessed the crime. ³² 

Deuteronomy 23:1-2

Purity in Public Worship

23:1 A man with crushed ³³  or severed genitals ³⁴  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ³⁵  23:2 A person of illegitimate birth ³⁶  may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so. ³⁷ 

Deuteronomy 6:5-6

6:5 You must love ³⁸  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ³⁹  your whole being, ⁴⁰  and all your strength. ⁴¹ 

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles

6:6 These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Deuteronomy 6:20

Exhortation to Remember the Past

6:20 When your children ⁴²  ask you later on, “What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God commanded you?”

Deuteronomy 7:16

Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism

7:16 You must destroy ⁴³  all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship ⁴⁴  their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 20:8

20:8 In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s ⁴⁵  heart as fearful ⁴⁶  as his own.”

Deuteronomy 33:4

33:4 Moses delivered to us a law, ⁴⁷ 

an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 33:7

Blessing on Judah

33:7 And this is the blessing ⁴⁸  to Judah. He said,

Listen, O Lord, to Judah’s voice,

and bring him to his people.

May his power be great,

and may you help him against his foes.

Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ⁴⁹  and obey ⁵⁰  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ⁵¹  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

John 14:13-14

14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, ⁵²  so that the Father may be glorified ⁵³  in the Son. 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

[8:16]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:16]  ² tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

[8:43]  ³ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

[8:43]  ⁴ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

[8:43]  ⁵ tn Heb “fear.”

[8:43]  ⁶ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[8:1]  ⁷ tc The Old Greek translation includes the following words at the beginning of ch. 8: “It so happened that when Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and his own house, after twenty years.”

[8:1]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to King Solomon [in] Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David (it is Zion).”

[11:36]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “give.”

[11:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.

[11:36]  ¹² tn Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”

[20:24]  ¹³ sn The instructions here call for the altar to be made of natural things, not things manufactured or shaped by man. The altar was either to be made of clumps of earth or natural, unhewn rocks.

[20:24]  ¹⁴ sn The “burnt offering” is the offering prescribed in Lev 1. Everything of this animal went up in smoke as a sweet aroma to God. It signified complete surrender by the worshiper who brought the animal, and complete acceptance by God, thereby making atonement. The “peace offering” is legislated in Lev 3 and 7. This was a communal meal offering to celebrate being at peace with God. It was made usually for thanksgiving, for payment of vows, or as a freewill offering.

[20:24]  ¹⁵ tn Gesenius lists this as one of the few places where the noun in construct seems to be indefinite in spite of the fact that the genitive has the article. He says בְּכָל־הַמָּקוֹם (bÿkhol-hammaqom) means “in all the place, sc. of the sanctuary, and is a dogmatic correction of “in every place” (כָּל־מָקוֹם, kol-maqom). See GKC 412 §127.e.

[20:24]  ¹⁶ tn The verb is זָכַר (zakhar, “to remember”), but in the Hiphil especially it can mean more than remember or cause to remember (remind) – it has the sense of praise or honor. B. S. Childs says it has a denominative meaning, “to proclaim” (Exodus [OTL], 447). The point of the verse is that God will give Israel reason for praising and honoring him, and in every place that occurs he will make his presence known by blessing them.

[12:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

[12:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[16:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “sacrifice the Passover” (so NASB). The word “animal” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[16:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

[16:6]  ²² tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

[16:6]  ²³ tc The MT reading אֶל (’el, “unto”) before “the place” should, following Smr, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate, be omitted in favor of ב (bet; בַּמָּקוֹם, bammaqom), “in the place.”

[16:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

[26:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[26:2]  ²⁶ sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.

[26:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[26:2]  ²⁸ sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.

[21:4]  ²⁹ tn The combination “a wadi with flowing water” is necessary because a wadi (נַחַל, nakhal) was ordinarily a dry stream or riverbed. For this ritual, however, a perennial stream must be chosen so that there would be fresh, rushing water.

[21:4]  ³⁰ sn The unworked heifer, fresh stream, and uncultivated valley speak of ritual purity – of freedom from human contamination.

[21:7]  ³¹ tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).

[21:7]  ³² tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:1]  ³³ tn Heb “bruised by crushing,” which many English versions take to refer to crushed testicles (NAB, NRSV, NLT); TEV “who has been castrated.”

[23:1]  ³⁴ tn Heb “cut off with respect to the penis”; KJV, ASV “hath his privy member cut off”; English versions vary in their degree of euphemism here; cf. NAB, NRSV, TEV, NLT “penis”; NASB “male organ”; NCV “sex organ”; CEV “private parts”; NIV “emasculated by crushing or cutting.”

[23:1]  ³⁵ sn The Hebrew term translated “assembly” (קָהָל, qahal) does not refer here to the nation as such but to the formal services of the tabernacle or temple. Since emasculated or other sexually abnormal persons were commonly associated with pagan temple personnel, the thrust here may be primarily polemical in intent. One should not read into this anything having to do with the mentally and physically handicapped as fit to participate in the life and ministry of the church.

[23:2]  ³⁶ tn Or “a person born of an illegitimate marriage.”

[23:2]  ³⁷ tn Heb “enter the assembly of the Lord.” The phrase “do so” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[6:5]  ³⁸ tn The verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) in this setting communicates not so much an emotional idea as one of covenant commitment. To love the Lord is to be absolutely loyal and obedient to him in every respect, a truth Jesus himself taught (cf. John 14:15). See also the note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

[6:5]  ³⁹ tn Heb “heart.” In OT physiology the heart (לֵב, לֵבָב; levav, lev) was considered the seat of the mind or intellect, so that one could think with one’s heart. See A. Luc, NIDOTTE 2:749-54.

[6:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “soul”; “being.” Contrary to Hellenistic ideas of a soul that is discrete and separate from the body and spirit, OT anthropology equated the “soul” (נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh) with the person himself. It is therefore best in most cases to translate נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) as “being” or the like. See H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 10-25; D. Fredericks, NIDOTTE 3:133-34.

[6:5]  ⁴¹ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

[6:20]  ⁴² tn Heb “your son.”

[7:16]  ⁴³ tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”

[7:16]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[20:8]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “his brother’s.”

[20:8]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “melted.”

[33:4]  ⁴⁷ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) here should be understood more broadly as instruction.

[33:7]  ⁴⁸ tn The words “the blessing” are supplied in the translation for clarity and stylistic reasons.

[1:9]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

[1:9]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[1:9]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

[14:13]  ⁵² tn Grk “And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it.”

[14:13]  ⁵³ tn Or “may be praised” or “may be honored.”