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TWOT Reference: 1999h
Strong's Number H4725 matches the Hebrew מָקוֹם (māqôm),
which occurs 401 times in 379 verses
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 3 / 8 (Deu 12:3–Rth 1:7)
“Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every[fn] place.
“Instead, turn to the place the LORD your God chooses from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.
“then the LORD your God will choose the place to have his name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,[fn] and all your choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
“You must offer your burnt offerings only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, and there you must do everything I command you.
“You are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God chooses — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your city gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you do,
“If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock he has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your city gates whenever you want.
“But you are to take the holy offerings you have and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD chooses.
“You are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and fresh oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where he chooses to have his name dwell, so that you will always learn to fear the LORD your God.
“But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you and since the LORD your God has blessed you,
“then exchange it for silver, take the silver in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God chooses.
“Each year you and your family are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD chooses.
“Sacrifice to the LORD your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the LORD chooses to have his name dwell.
“Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.
“You are to cook and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning.
“Rejoice before the LORD your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell — you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you.
“You are to hold a seven-day festival for the LORD your God in the place he chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.
“All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.
“If a case is too difficult for you — concerning bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults — cases disputed at your city gates, then go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.
“You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.
“When a Levite leaves one of your towns in Israel where he was staying and wants to go to the place the LORD chooses,
“his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.
“Let him live among you wherever he wants within your city gates. Do not mistreat him.
“take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the LORD your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell.
“When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
“when all Israel assembles in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.
“I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads, just as I promised Moses.
and commanded the people, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God carried by the Levitical priests, you are to break camp and follow it.
When the priests carrying the ark of the LORD’s covenant came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet[fn] stepped out on solid ground, the water of the Jordan resumed its course, flowing over all the banks as before.
The LORD then said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you.” Therefore, that place is still called Gilgal[fn] today.
The commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did that.
and raised over him a large pile of rocks that remains still today. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor[fn] still today.
When he held out his hand, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They ran, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers — as they are today — for the community and for the LORD’s altar at the place he would choose.
“When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
The LORD said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the three hundred men who lapped and hand the Midianites over to you. But everyone else is to go home.”
“Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon. Israel said to him, ‘Please let us travel through your land to our country,’
When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone and named that place Jawbone Hill.[fn]
“When you get there, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has handed it over to you. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. This is why the place is still called the Camp of Dan[fn] today; it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
“Come on,” he said,[fn] “let’s try to reach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim, but he was residing in Gibeah where the people were Benjaminites.
“Get up,” he told her. “Let’s go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
But the Israelite troops rallied and again took their battle positions in the same place where they positioned themselves on the first day.
So all the men of Israel got up from their places and took their battle positions at Baal-tamar, while the Israelites in ambush charged out of their places west of[fn] Geba.
Then the Benjaminites realized they had been defeated.
The men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin, because they were confident in the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
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