Bible Cross References
yearly
Exodus 23:14
"Celebrate three festivals a year to honor me.
Exodus 23:17
Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.
Exodus 34:23
"Three times a year all of your men must come to worship me, the LORD, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16
"All the men of your nation are to come to worship the LORD three times a year at the one place of worship: at Passover, Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters. Each man is to bring a gift
Luke 2:41
Every year the parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.
to worship
Deuteronomy 12:5-7
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Out of the territory of all your tribes the LORD will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him.
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There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the LORD, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep.
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There, in the presence of the LORD your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.
Deuteronomy 12:11-14
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The LORD will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the LORD.
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Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own.
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You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose;
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you must offer them only in the one place that the LORD will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.
Shiloh
1 Samuel 1:9
One time, after they had finished their meal in the house of the LORD at Shiloh, Hannah got up. She was deeply distressed, and she cried bitterly as she prayed to the LORD. Meanwhile, Eli the priest was sitting in his place by the door.
Joshua 18:1
After they had conquered the land, the entire community of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of the LORD's presence.
Judges 18:31
Micah's idol remained there as long as the Tent where God was worshiped remained at Shiloh.
Psalm 78:60
He abandoned his tent in Shiloh, the home where he had lived among us.
Jeremiah 7:12-14
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Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.
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You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.
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And so, what I did to Shiloh I will do to this Temple of mine, in which you trust. Here in this place that I gave to your ancestors and you, I will do the same thing that I did to Shiloh.
And the
1 Samuel 1:9
One time, after they had finished their meal in the house of the LORD at Shiloh, Hannah got up. She was deeply distressed, and she cried bitterly as she prayed to the LORD. Meanwhile, Eli the priest was sitting in his place by the door.
1 Samuel 2:12-17
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The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the LORD
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or to the regulations concerning what the priests could demand from the people. Instead, when someone was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork. While the meat was still cooking,
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he would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever the fork brought out belonged to the priest. All the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices were treated like this.
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In addition, even before the fat was taken off and burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the one offering the sacrifice, "Give me some meat for the priest to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat."
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If the person answered, "Let us do what is right and burn the fat first; then take what you want," the priest's servant would say, "No! Give it to me now! If you don't, I will have to take it by force!"
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This sin of the sons of Eli was extremely serious in the LORD's sight, because they treated the offerings to the LORD with such disrespect.
1 Samuel 2:34-17
1 Samuel 3:13
I have already told him that I am going to punish his family forever because his sons have spoken evil things against me. Eli knew they were doing this, but he did not stop them.
1 Samuel 4:4
So they sent messengers to Shiloh and got the Covenant Box of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned above the winged creatures. And Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, came along with the Covenant Box.
1 Samuel 4:11
God's Covenant Box was captured, and Eli's sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were both killed.
1 Samuel 4:17
The messenger answered, "Israel ran away from the Philistines; it was a terrible defeat for us! Besides that, your sons Hophni and Phinehas were killed, and God's Covenant Box was captured!"
1 Samuel 4:18
When the man mentioned the Covenant Box, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck, and he died. He had been a leader in Israel for forty years.