All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
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The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.Julius Wellhausen
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
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Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
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One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
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For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
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