Deuteronomy 12:5 BSB

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

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ASV

But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;

KJV

But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

But unto the place which the Lord your God,.... The Targum of Jonathan is, that the Word of the Lord your God: shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there; to place his tabernacle, set up his worship, take up his residence, and cause the Shechinah, or his divine Majesty, to dwell there, as the next clause explains it; out of what tribe it should be chosen, and where it should be, is not said.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

“To put his name there” means to manifest to men His divine presence. The Targumists rightly refer to the Shechinah; but the expression comprehends all the various modes in which God vouchsafed to reveal Himself and His attributes to men. The purpose of the command of the text is to secure the unity, and through unity the purity of the worship of God. That there should be one national center for the religion of the people was obviously essential to the great ends of the whole dispensation.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It was admirably calculated to prevent the corruption which would otherwise have crept in from their frequenting groves and high hills--to preserve uniformity of worship and keep alive their faith in Him to whom all their sacrifices pointed. The place was successively Mizpeh, Shiloh, and especially Jerusalem.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֠י	ki	that	H3588 →
אִֽם־	'im-	except	H518 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמָּק֞וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	where	H834 →
יִבְחַ֨ר	yiv.Char	he will choose	H977 →
יְהוָ֤ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙	'e.lo.hei.Khem	God your	H430 →
מִכָּל־	mi.kol	from all	H3605 →
שִׁבְטֵיכֶ֔ם	shiv.tei.Khem	tribes your	H7626 →
לָשׂ֥וּם	la.Sum	to put	H7760 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׁמ֖וֹ	she.Mo	name his	H8034 →
שָׁ֑ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
לְשִׁכְנ֥וֹ	le.shikh.No	to dwelling its	H7931 →
תִדְרְשׁ֖וּ	tid.re.Shu	you will resort	H1875 →
וּבָ֥אתָ	u.Va.ta	and you will go	H935 →
שָֽׁמָּה׃	Sha.mah	there towards	H8033 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 8:29
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:11
  then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 6:20
  May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward…
- 2 Chronicles 7:15–16
  Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
- 1 Kings 8:16
  ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be…
Through
Deuteronomy 26:2
you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go…
leads to
- Exodus 23:19
  Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Exodus 23:16
  You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year,…
Through
2 Chronicles 7:12
the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
leads to
- Genesis 17:1
  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
Through
Deuteronomy 12:11
then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 15:20
  Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Deuteronomy