God chooses a singular, consecrated place to put His name, selecting the location Himself, as repeatedly stated in Deuteronomy. Jerusalem on Mount Zion, where Solomon built the Temple, is the ultimate and eternal site where His name abides. Placing His name there signifies His authority, glory, renown, presence, and possession, marking it as His holy city. Though His glory departed during the Babylonian invasion, He promises in Zechariah to again choose Jerusalem. All sacrifices and offerings, including burnt offerings, tithes, and firstborn, must be brought to this chosen place. This requirement was unfulfilled until the Tabernacle was erected in Joshua 18:1, seven years after entering the land. Until then, no offerings could be made, for God meant this command with certainty. Also see sermons and articles about 'God's Name, Place of'.
Deuteronomy 12:11 then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:5-9 "But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes— for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:13-14 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Deuteronomy 26:2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
Deuteronomy 14:23-25 And you shall eat before the LORD your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the LORD your God has blessed you, then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
Related Scriptures
Joshua 18:1 Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.
Exodus 23:17 “Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
