2 Chronicles 6:6 - Revised Standard Version

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem 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.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:6 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 21:4

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”

2 Kings 21:7

And the graven image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord 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 for ever;

1 Chronicles 17:5

For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I led up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.

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 pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;

1 Chronicles 28:4

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

2 Chronicles 20:8

And they have dwelt in it, and have built thee in it a sanctuary for thy name, saying,

2 Chronicles 30:8

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

2 Chronicles 33:4

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.”

2 Chronicles 6:20

that thy eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where thou hast promised to set thy name, that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city in all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 7:16

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

Ezra 7:16

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

Psalm 122:2

Our feet have been 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

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, 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 in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”

Zechariah 2:12

And 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 a brand plucked from the fire?”

1 Samuel 16:1

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