2 Chronicles 7:16

God's Charge To Solomon

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

For My Name

House for My Name

Set Apart

2 Chronicles 7:12

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

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which LORD thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shall kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which LORD has given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou may eat within thy gates, a

Deuteronomy 16:11

And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in th

1 Kings 8:16

Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel 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 toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin when thou afflict them,

1 Kings 8:44

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shall send them, and they pray to LORD toward the city which thou have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name,

1 Kings 8:48

if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gave to their fathers, the city which thou have chosen, and t

1 Kings 9:3

And LORD said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou have made before me. I have hallowed this house, which thou have built, to put my name there forever. And my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetuall

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Kings 21:7-8

And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which 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

2 Chronicles 6:5-6

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

2 Chronicles 6:20

that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place of which thou have said that thou would put thy name there, to hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attend to the prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

And he built altars in the house of LORD, of which LORD said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

Psalm 132:14

This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Zechariah 3:2

And LORD said to Satan, LORD rebuke thee, O Satan. Yea, LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?

Matthew 3:17

And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

John 2:19-21

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

Colossians 2:9

Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.