So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

They named that place Bokim and offered sacrifices to the Lord there.

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

So he called the name of that place Taberah because there the fire of the Lord burned among them.

They did not see what he did to you in the desert before you reached this place,

Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.

“Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.

Yet the children born during your time of bereavement will say within your hearing, ‘This place is too cramped for us, make room for us so we can live here.’

Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them what to say to Iddo and his relatives, who were the temple servants in Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God.

I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.