2 Chronicles 6:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But I have chosen Jerusalem, that My Name [and the symbol of My presence] might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Common English Bible

⁶ But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place for my name, and David as prince over my people Israel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:6 Cross References

2 Kings 21:4

And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2 Kings 21:7

And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

1 Chronicles 17:5

for I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

1 Chronicles 17:7

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my people Israel:

1 Chronicles 28:4

Howbeit the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel:

2 Chronicles 12:13

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 20:8

And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:4

And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

2 Chronicles 6:20

that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:5

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Ezra 7:16

and all the silver and gold that thou shalt find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;

Psalm 122:2

Our feet are standing Within thy gates, O Jerusalem;

Psalm 132:13

For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.

Psalm 48:1

Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.

Isaiah 14:32

What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

Zechariah 2:12

And the LORD shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

Zechariah 3:2

And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

1 Samuel 16:1

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.