2 Chronicles 6:6

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

Cross References

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Kings 21:7

And he set a sculptured image from the grove 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 tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

1 Chronicles 17:5

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

1 Chronicles 17:7

Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, even from following the sheep, that you should be ruler over my people Israel:

1 Chronicles 28:4

However the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he has chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he was pleased with 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 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 an Ammonitess.

2 Chronicles 20:8

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

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:4

Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

2 Chronicles 6:20

That your eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to hear and grant the prayer which your servant prays 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 among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

2 Chronicles 7:16

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

Ezra 7:16

And all the silver and gold that you can 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 shall stand within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 132:13

For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Psalm 48:1

​Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth you shall make unto me, and shall sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

Isaiah 14:32

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Zechariah 2:12

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

Zechariah 3:2

And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a branch plucked out of the fire?

1 Samuel 16:1

And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.