2 Chronicles 7:16

God's Charge To Solomon

¹⁵ Now my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place; ¹⁶ For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. ¹⁷ And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee and keep my statutes and my rights,

For My Name

House for My Name

Set Apart

2 Chronicles 7:12

And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 12:21

When the place which the LORD thy God shall have chosen to put his name there is far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy cows and of thy sheep, which the LORD has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates according to all thy soul desires.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy manslave and thy maidslave and the Levite that is within thy gates and the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God has chosen to place his name there.

1 Kings 8:16

Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

1 Kings 8:35

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them,

1 Kings 8:44

If thy people go out to battle against their enemies by the way which thou shalt send them and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name,

1 Kings 8:48

and so convert themselves unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou didst give unto their fathers, toward the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy name,

1 Kings 9:3

And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made in my presence. I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there all the days.

2 Kings 21:4

Likewise, he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.

2 Kings 21:7-8

And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon, his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

2 Chronicles 6:5-6

Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither did I choose any man to be a prince over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:20

that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there, to hearken unto the prayer which thy slave prays in this place.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place;

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

Psalm 132:14

This shall be my rest for ever; here I will dwell; for I have desired her.

Zechariah 3:2

And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD reprehend thee, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem reprehend thee; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Matthew 3:17

and, behold, a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

John 2:19-21

Jesus answered and said unto them, Dissolve this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Colossians 2:9

For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,