Good News Translation"My Samaritan ancestors worshiped God on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where we should worship God."
New Revised Standard Version
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Contemporary English Version
My ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say Jerusalem is the only place to worship."
New American Bible
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
fathers.
Genesis 12:6,7 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. . . .
Genesis 33:18-20 And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town. . . .
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Joshua 8:33-35 And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was born among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount Hebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he blessed the people of Israel. . . .
Judges 9:6,7 And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem. . . .
2 Kings 17:26-33 And it was told the king of the Assyrians, and it was said: The nations which thou hast removed, and made to dwell in the cities of Samaria, know not the ordinances of the God of the land: and the Lord hath sent lions among them: and behold they kill them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. . . .
and ye.
Deuteronomy 12:5-11 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .
1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always.
1 Chronicles 21:26 And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
1 Chronicles 22:1 Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:12,16 And the Lord appeared to him by night, and said: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. . . .
Psalm 78:68 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
Psalm 87:1,2 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains: . . .
Psalm 132:13 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.
