2 Chronicles 7:16

God's Charge To Solomon

¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to 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 you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,

For My Name

House for My Name

Set Apart

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

1 Kings 8:16

'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose 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 you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

1 Kings 8:44

"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORDtoward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

1 Kings 8:48

if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,

1 Kings 9:3

And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

2 Kings 21:4

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

2 Kings 21:7-8

And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the 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 forever.

2 Chronicles 6:5-6

'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

2 Chronicles 6:20

that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had 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 the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?"

Matthew 3:17

and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

John 2:19-21

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

Colossians 2:9

For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,