2 Chronicles 7:16

God's Charge To Solomon

¹⁵ My eyes will be open! My ears will pay attention to the prayers offered at 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 If you will be faithful to me as your father David was, do everything I command, and obey my laws and rules,

For My Name

House for My Name

Set Apart

2 Chronicles 7:12

JEHOVAH APPEARED TO SOLOMON THAT NIGHT. He said to Solomon: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a Temple for sacrifices.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you, you may slaughter an animal from the herds or flocks that Jehovah has given you. Eat as much as you want in your city. I have commanded you to do this.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

1 Kings 8:16

Since the time I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen any city in all the land of Israel in which a temple should be built where I would be worshiped. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.'

1 Kings 8:35

When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,

1 Kings 8:44

When your people go to war against their enemies, they pray to you, O Jehovah, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I built for your name.

1 Kings 8:48

If they change their attitude toward you in the land of their enemies where they are captives, if they pray to you toward the land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,

1 Kings 9:3

Jehovah said: I have heard your prayers and your supplication you made. I have made this house holy. I put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

2 Kings 21:4

He built heathen altars in the Temple of Jehovah. The same Temple that Jehovah spoke of when he said: In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2 Kings 21:7-8

He made an image of the goddess Asherah and set it in the Temple of Jehovah. This is the same Temple that Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son: In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever (for a very long time).

2 Chronicles 6:5-6

Since I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I did not choose any city from the tribes of Israel as a place to build a Temple for my name. And I did not choose any man to be prince over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:20

Day and night may your eyes be on this Temple, the place where you said your name will be. Listen to me as I pray toward this place.

2 Chronicles 7:15

My eyes will be open! My ears will pay attention to the prayers offered at this place.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

He built altars in Jehovah's Temple, of which Jehovah said: My name will be in Jerusalem from generation to generation.

Psalm 132:14

This will be my resting place forever. Here I will sit enthroned because I want Zion.

Zechariah 3:2

Jehovah said to Satan: Jehovah rebukes you, O Satan; yes, Jehovah, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you. Is this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Matthew 3:17

Then a voice from heaven said: This is my Son whom I love and whom I have approved.

John 2:19-21

Jesus replied: Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.

Colossians 2:9

The fullness of divine nature lives in Christ's bodily form. (Greek: theotes: essence and nature of God) (Only the Son of God could have divine attributes, the inherited qualities from the Father)