2 Chronicles 7:16

Modern King James Version

For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, so that My name may be there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there forever.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:16

From the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, so that My name might be in it. But I chose David to be over My people Israel.

1 Kings 8:35

When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and confess 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 shall send them, and shall pray to Jehovah toward the city which You have chosen, and the house that I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 8:48

and so return to You with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and if they pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, to the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name,

1 Kings 9:3

And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your cry which you have made before Me. I have made this house which you have built holy, to put My name there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Chronicles 30:8

And do not be stiffnecked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 6:20

I pray that Your eyes may be open on this house day and night, on the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:12

And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears shall be open to the prayer of this place.

2 Chronicles 7:17

And you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe My statutes and My judgments,

Psalm 132:13

Jehovah has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling-place.

Psalm 132:14

This is My rest forever; here I will dwell; for I have desired it.

Zechariah 3:2

And Jehovah said to Satan, May Jehovah rebuke you, Satan! May even Jehovah who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?

Matthew 3:17

And lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Deuteronomy 12:21

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

Deuteronomy 16:11

And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to place His name there.

Colossians 2:9

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