2 Chronicles 7:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Have i chosen

Eyes

Bible References

Have i chosen

If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?

Eyes

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,