2 Chronicles 7:16

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:15

My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:12

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.

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.

2 Chronicles 6:20

That thou mayest open thy eyes upon this house, day and night, upon the place wherein thou hast promised that thy name should be called upon,

Colossians 2:9

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally;

Zechariah 3:2

And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Matthew 3:17

And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

2 Kings 21:4

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

1 Kings 8:48

And return to thee with all their heart, and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they had been led captives: and pray to thee towards the way of their land, which thou gavest to their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the temple which I have built to thy name:

1 Kings 8:44

If thy people go out to war against their enemies, by what way soever thou shalt send them, they shall pray to thee towards the way of the city, which thou hast chosen, and towards the house, which I have built to thy name.

1 Kings 8:35

If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:

1 Kings 8:16

Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there.

Deuteronomy 12:21

And if the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be there, be far off: thou shalt kill of thy herds and of thy flocks, as I have commanded thee, and shalt eat in thy towns, as it pleaseth thee.

2 Chronicles 7:17

And as for thee, if thou walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and keep my justices and my judgments:

2 Chronicles 30:8

Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: Yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever. Serve the Lord the God of your fathers; and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you.