11 You will bring all that I am commanding you to the place that Jehovah your God chooses to have his name reside+—your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes,+ the contribution from your hand, and every vow offering that you vow to Jehovah.

22 David then said: “This is the house of Jehovah the true God, and this is an altar for burnt offering for Israel.”+

8 As soon as Aʹsa heard these words and the prophecy of Oʹded the prophet, he took courage and removed the disgusting idols from all the land of Judah+ and Benjamin and from the cities that he had captured from the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im, and he restored Jehovah’s altar that was before the porch of Jehovah.+ 9 And he gathered together all Judah and Benjamin and the foreign residents with them from Eʹphra·im and Ma·nasʹseh and Simʹe·on,+ for they had deserted to him from Israel in great number when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

10 So the couriers* went from city to city throughout the land of Eʹphra·im and Ma·nasʹseh,+ even to Zebʹu·lun, but the people were making fun of them and mocking them.+ 11 However, some individuals from Ashʹer, Ma·nasʹseh, and Zebʹu·lun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.+