2 Chronicles 7:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I have chosen and sanctified (set apart for holy use) this house, that My Name may be here forever, and My eyes and My heart will be here perpetually. American Standard Version (1901) For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. Common English Bible because I have chosen this temple and declared it holy so that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. Catholic Public Domain Version For I have chosen and sanctified this place, so that my name may be there continually, and so that my eyes and my heart may remain there, for all days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually. |
‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, nor did I choose anyone to be a ruler over my people Israel. But I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and then they pray toward this place, confess your name, and turn from their sin because you punish them,
“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and pray to you toward their land that you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,
The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
May your eyes be open day and night toward this house, the place where you promised to set your name, and may you heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
“This is my resting place forever; here I will reside, for I have desired it.
And the Lord said to the accuser, “The Lord rebuke you, O accuser! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand plucked from the fire?”
And a voice from the heavens said, “This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.”
If the place where the Lord your God will choose to put his name is too far from you, and you slaughter as I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, then you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.
Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.