2 Chronicles 6:6

Solomon Blesses The People

⁵ 'From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name [to be] there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel. ⁶ But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' ⁷ Now, it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

For My Name

My People

Rule My People

David

Israel

Jerusalem

1 Chronicles 28:4

But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel.

2 Chronicles 12:13

So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned [there]. Now, Rehoboam [was] forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother [was] Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Samuel 16:1

Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "{How long} will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn [with] oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."

Psalm 48:1

Yahweh [is] great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his {holy mountain}.

Psalm 78:68-70

but chose the tribe of Judah, {Mount Zion} that he loved.

Psalm 89:19-20

Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from [the] people.

Psalm 132:13

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Isaiah 14:32

And what will one answer [the] messengers of [the] nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.