2 Chronicles 7:16

The Scriptures 2009

“And now, I have chosen and set this house apart for My Name to be there forever. And My eyes and My heart shall always be there.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:16

Since the day I brought My people Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yisra’ĕl in which to build a house for My Name to be there, but I chose Dawiḏ to be over My people Yisra’ĕl.’

1 Kings 8:35

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,

1 Kings 8:44

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to יהוה toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,

1 Kings 8:48

and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall 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

And יהוה said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there.

2 Kings 21:4

And he built slaughter-places in the House of יהוה, of which יהוה had said, “In Yerushalayim I put My Name.”

2 Chronicles 30:8

“Now do not stiffen your neck, like your fathers, stretch forth the hand to יהוה, and come to His set-apart place, which He has set apart forever, and serve יהוה your Elohim, so that His burning wrath turns away from you.

2 Chronicles 6:20

“For Your eyes to be open toward this House day and night, toward the place You have said to put Your Name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:12

And יהוה appeared to Shelomoh by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of slaughtering.

2 Chronicles 7:15

“Now, My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.

2 Chronicles 7:17

“And you, if you walk before Me as your father Dawiḏ walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you guard My laws and My right-rulings,

Psalm 132:13

For יהוה has chosen Tsiyon, He has desired it for His dwelling:

Psalm 132:14

“This is My place of rest forever; Here I dwell, for I have desired it.

Zechariah 3:2

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

Matthew 3:17

and see, a voice out of the heavens, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight.”

Deuteronomy 12:21

“When the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you shall slaughter from your herd and from your flock which יהוה has given you, as I have commanded you, and you shall eat within your gates as much as your being desires.

Deuteronomy 16:11

“And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male servant and your female servant, and the Lĕwite who is within your gates, and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are in your midst, at the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell.

Colossians 2:9

Because in Him dwells all the completeness of Elohim-ness bodily,