2 Chronicles 7:12

God's Charge To Solomon

¹¹ So Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. Everything that had entered Solomon’s heart to do for the Lord’s temple and for his own palace succeeded. ¹² Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:

I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple of sacrifice. ¹³ If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people,

Heard Your Prayer

Lord Appeared to

Jehovah

Solomon

Deuteronomy 12:11

then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

1 Kings 9:2

the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in My presence and be blameless.

Deuteronomy 12:5-6

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

2 Kings 2:6

Elijah said to him, “Stay here; the Lord is sending me to the Jordan.”

But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.

2 Kings 20:5

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of My people, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 1:7

That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him: “Ask. What should I give you?”

2 Chronicles 7:16

And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My name may be there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

Psalm 10:17

Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,

Psalm 66:19

However, God has listened;
He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.

Psalm 78:68-69

He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalm 132:13-14

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

Luke 1:13

But the angel said to him:

Do not be afraid, Zechariah,
because your prayer has been heard.
Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
and you will name him John.

Acts 10:31

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God’s sight.

1 John 5:14-15

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.