2 Chronicles 6:6

New King James Version

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:4

However the Lord God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, 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.

Psalm 132:13

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

2 Chronicles 12:13

Thus King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; 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. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

Psalm 48:1

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now 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 am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

Isaiah 14:32

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name I will come to you, and I will bless you.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man to be a ruler over My people Israel.

Zechariah 2:12

And the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Kings 21:7

He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

1 Chronicles 17:5

For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought up Israel, even to 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, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:20

that Your eyes may be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your name, that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 20:8

And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it 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 His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:4

He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.”

Ezra 7:16

and whereas all the silver and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests, are to be freely offered for the house of their God in Jerusalem—

Psalm 122:2

Our feet have been standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Zechariah 3:2

And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”