2 Chronicles 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But I have chosen Jerusalem, that My Name [and the symbol of My presence] might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Common English Bible

⁶ But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place for my name, and David as prince over my people Israel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.'

2 Chronicles 6:6 Tagairtí Cros

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 Kings 21:7

The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “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 lived in a house since the day I brought out Israel to this very day, but I have lived in a tent and a tabernacle.

1 Chronicles 17:7

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people Israel;

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my ancestral house to be king over Israel forever; for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took delight in making me king over all Israel.

2 Chronicles 12:13

So King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign; he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

2 Chronicles 20:8

They have lived in it, and in it have built you a sanctuary for your name, saying,

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your ancestors were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:4

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

2 Chronicles 6:20

May your eyes be open day and night toward this house, the place where you promised to set your name, and may you heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, so that my name might be there, and I chose no one as ruler over my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Ezra 7:16

with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, given willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem.

Psalm 122:2

Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 132:13

For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

Psalm 48:1

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

Exodus 20:24

You need make for me only an altar of earth and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your offerings of well-being, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

Isaiah 14:32

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and the needy among his people will find refuge in her.”

Zechariah 2:12

The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Zechariah 3:2

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

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”