2 Chronicles 7:16

Modern English Version

So now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name be there continually. My eyes and heart will be there for all days.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:16

‘Since the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city from any tribe of Israel to build a house where My name might be praised, but I chose David to be over My people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:35

“When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and call upon Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

1 Kings 8:44

“If Your people go out to battle against their enemy wherever You send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and toward the house that I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 8:48

and so return to You with all their hearts and with all their souls in the land of their enemies, who carried them away as captives, and pray to You toward their land, which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and supplication, which you made before Me. I have consecrated this house which you built by putting My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 21:4

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

2 Chronicles 30:8

So now do not harden your necks as your fathers, but give yourselves to the Lord and come to the sanctuary that He has consecrated permanently. Serve the Lord your God so that His burning anger might turn away from you all.

2 Chronicles 6:20

that Your eyes might be open toward this house both day and night, to the place that You have said that You will set Your name, in order to hear the prayer of Your servant for this place.

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night, and He said to Solomon, “I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen for Myself in this place a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

2 Chronicles 7:17

“And you, if you walk before Me as David your father did to do everything that I command you to do, and you keep My statutes and judgments,

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place:

Psalm 132:14

“This is My resting place forever; here will I dwell, for I have chosen it.

Zechariah 3:2

And the Lord said to the Adversary, “The Lord rebuke you, Adversary! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! Is this not a burning brand taken out of the fire?”

Matthew 3:17

And behold, a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.

Deuteronomy 16:11

You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow who are among you—in the place where the Lord your God has chosen to place His name.

Colossians 2:9

For in Him lives all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.