2 Chronicles 20:8

English Standard Version 2016

And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:10

Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 2:4

Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, as ordained forever for Israel.

2 Chronicles 20:7

Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

2 Chronicles 20:9

‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

Joshua 21:43

Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 6:6

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