Deuteronomy 3:14

3:14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites ¹  and Maacathites ²  (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, ³  which it retains to this very day.)

Deuteronomy 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ⁴  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ⁵  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ⁶ 

Deuteronomy 12:21

12:21 If the place he ⁷  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he ⁸  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages ⁹  just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 14:23-24

14:23 In the presence of the Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine, ¹⁰  your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. 14:24 When he ¹¹  blesses you, if the ¹²  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Deuteronomy 16:6

16:6 but you must sacrifice it ¹³  in the evening in ¹⁴  the place where he ¹⁵  chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:11

16:11 You shall rejoice before him ¹⁶  – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, ¹⁷  the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

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 ¹⁸  chooses to locate his name. ¹⁹ 

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ²⁰  will rage ²¹  against that man; all the curses ²²  written in this scroll will fall upon him ²³  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ²⁴ 

¹ sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).

² sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).

³ sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.

⁴ tn Heb “and it will be (to) the place where the Lord your God chooses to cause his name to dwell you will bring.”

⁵ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

⁸ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

⁹ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”

¹⁰ tn This refers to wine in the early stages of fermentation. In its later stages it becomes wine (יַיִן, yayin) in its mature sense.

¹³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 14:2.

¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Passover.” The translation uses a pronoun to avoid redundancy in English.

¹⁷ 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.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 16:1.

²⁰ tn Heb “gates.”

²² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

²³ 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.

²⁵ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

²⁶ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

²⁷ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

²⁸ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

²⁹ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”