1 Kings 8:16

Tree of Life Version

‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out from Egypt, I have not chosen a city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a House where My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

To his son I will give one tribe so that My servant David may have a lamp every day before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I chose for Myself to put My Name there.

1 Kings 8:29

Let Your eyes be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You have said: ‘My Name shall be there;’ listening to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

2 Kings 23:27

Adonai said, “I will banish Judah also from My presence as I banished Israel, and I have spurned this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the House about which I had said: ‘My Name will be there.’”

1 Chronicles 17:3

But that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet Adonai, the God of Israel, has chosen me out of all my ancestral house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as ruler, and of the house of Judah, my father’s house, and of my father’s sons, He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to Me and obey My mitzvot, and do them, then even if your dispersed people are at the ends of the heavens, I will gather them from there, and bring them back to the place where I have chosen for My Name to dwell.’

Psalm 132:13

For Adonai has chosen Zion, He has desired it for His dwelling:

Psalm 78:70

He also chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds,

Psalm 89:3

For I said, “Let your lovingkindness be built up forever! The heavens—let Your faithfulness be made firm there!”

Jeremiah 7:12

“Indeed, go now to My place that was in Shiloh, where I first made My Name dwell. Now see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:11

“Then the place Adonai your God chooses to make His Name dwell, there you are to bring all that I command you—your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to Adonai.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Rather you are to seek only the place Adonai your God chooses from all your tribes to put His Name to dwell—there you will come.

1 Samuel 16:1

Now Adonai said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse the Beth-lehemite, for I have selected for Myself a king among his sons.”