1 Chronicles 21:18-28

21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build ¹  an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 21:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord. ²  21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves. 21:21 When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face ³  to the ground. 21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ⁴  so I can build ⁵  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ⁶  – so that the plague may be removed ⁷  from the people.” 21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ⁸  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ⁹  Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.” 21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price. ¹⁰  I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice ¹¹  that cost me nothing. ¹²  21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. ¹³  21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. ¹⁴  He called out to the Lord, and the Lord ¹⁵  responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar. 21:27 The Lord ordered the messenger ¹⁶  to put his sword back into its sheath.

21:28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Genesis 28:17

28:17 He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!”

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

12:5 But you must seek only the place he ¹⁷  chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, ¹⁸  and you must go there. 12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ¹⁹  your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 12:7 Both you and your families ²⁰  must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he ²¹  has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 12:11

12:11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing ²²  everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, ²³  and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him. ²⁴ 

Deuteronomy 12:2

12:2 You must by all means destroy ²⁵  all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ²⁶ 

Deuteronomy 24:18

24:18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

Deuteronomy 24:2

24:2 When she has left him ²⁷  she may go and become someone else’s wife.

Deuteronomy 3:1

Defeat of King Og of Bashan

3:1 Next we set out on ²⁸  the route to Bashan, ²⁹  but King Og of Bashan and his whole army ³⁰  came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ³¹ 

Deuteronomy 6:5-6

6:5 You must love ³²  the Lord your God with your whole mind, ³³  your whole being, ³⁴  and all your strength. ³⁵ 

Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles

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

Psalms 78:60

78:60 He abandoned ³⁶  the sanctuary at Shiloh,

the tent where he lived among men.

Psalms 78:67-69

78:67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;

he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

78:68 He chose the tribe of Judah,

and Mount Zion, which he loves.

78:69 He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; ³⁷ 

as secure as the earth, which he established permanently. ³⁸ 

Psalms 132:13-14

132:13 Certainly ³⁹  the Lord has chosen Zion;

he decided to make it his home. ⁴⁰ 

132:14 He said, ⁴¹  “This will be my resting place forever;

I will live here, for I have chosen it. ⁴² 

John 4:20-22

4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, ⁴³  and you people ⁴⁴  say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” ⁴⁵  4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, ⁴⁶  a time ⁴⁷  is coming when you will worship ⁴⁸  the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people ⁴⁹  worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ⁵⁰ 

[21:18]  ¹ tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”

[21:19]  ² tn Heb “and David went up by the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of the Lord.”

[21:21]  ³ tn Heb “nostrils.”

[21:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ⁵ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  ⁷ tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.

[21:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[21:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[21:24]  ¹¹ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

[21:24]  ¹² tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”

[21:25]  ¹³ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.

[21:26]  ¹⁴ tn Or “tokens of peace.”

[21:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “spoke to the messenger.”

[12:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[12:5]  ¹⁸ tc Some scholars, on the basis of v. 11, emend the MT reading שִׁכְנוֹ (shikhno, “his residence”) to the infinitive construct לְשָׁכֵן (lÿshakhen, “to make [his name] to dwell”), perhaps with the 3rd person masculine singular sf לְשַׁכְּנוֹ (lÿshakÿno, “to cause it to dwell”). Though the presupposed nounשֵׁכֶן (shekhen) is nowhere else attested, the parallel here with שַׁמָּה (shammah, “there”) favors retaining the MT as it stands.

[12:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and your houses,” referring to entire households. The pronouns “you” and “your” are plural in the Hebrew text.

[12:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:11]  ²² 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]  ²³ tn Heb “heave offerings of your hand.”

[12:11]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “destroying you must destroy”; KJV “Ye shall utterly (surely ASV) destroy”; NRSV “must demolish completely.” The Hebrew infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis, which is reflected in the translation by the words “by all means.”

[12:2]  ²⁶ sn Every leafy tree. This expression refers to evergreens which, because they keep their foliage throughout the year, provided apt symbolism for nature cults such as those practiced in Canaan. The deity particularly in view is Asherah, wife of the great god El, who was considered the goddess of fertility and whose worship frequently took place at shrines near or among clusters (groves) of such trees (see also Deut 7:5). See J. Hadley, NIDOTTE 1:569-70; J. DeMoor, TDOT 1:438-44.

[24:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “his house.”

[3:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “turned and went up.”

[3:1]  ²⁹ sn Bashan. This plateau country, famous for its oaks (Isa 2:13) and cattle (Deut 32:14; Amos 4:1), was north of Gilead along the Yarmuk River.

[3:1]  ³⁰ tn Heb “people.”

[3:1]  ³¹ sn Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31; also mentioned in Deut 1:4).

[6:5]  ³² 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]  ³³ 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]  ³⁴ 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]  ³⁵ sn For NT variations on the Shema see Matt 22:37-39; Mark 12:29-30; Luke 10:27.

[78:60]  ³⁶ tn Or “rejected.”

[78:69]  ³⁷ tc Heb “and he built like the exalting [ones] his sanctuary.” The phrase כְּמוֹ־רָמִים (kÿmo-ramim, “like the exalting [ones]”) is a poetic form of the comparative preposition followed by a participial form of the verb רוּם (rum, “be exalted”). The text should be emended to כִּמְרֹמִים (kimromim, “like the [heavenly] heights”). See Ps 148:1, where “heights” refers to the heavens above.

[78:69]  ³⁸ tn Heb “like the earth, [which] he established permanently.” The feminine singular suffix on the Hebrew verb יָסַד (yasad, “to establish”) refers to the grammatically feminine noun “earth.”

[132:13]  ³⁹ tn Or “for.”

[132:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “he desired it for his dwelling place.”

[132:14]  ⁴¹ tn The words “he said” are added in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

[132:14]  ⁴² tn Heb “for I desired it.”

[4:20]  ⁴³ sn This mountain refers to Mount Gerizim, where the Samaritan shrine was located.

[4:20]  ⁴⁴ tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied to indicate that the Greek verb translated “say” is second person plural and thus refers to more than Jesus alone.

[4:20]  ⁴⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[4:21]  ⁴⁶ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.

[4:21]  ⁴⁷ tn Grk “an hour.”

[4:21]  ⁴⁸ tn The verb is plural.

[4:22]  ⁴⁹ tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied to indicate that the Greek verb translated “worship” is second person plural and thus refers to more than the woman alone.

[4:22]  ⁵⁰ tn Or “from the Judeans.” See the note on “Jew” in v. 9.