2 Kings 21:7
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).
1 Kings 8:29
Watch over this Temple day and night. For this is the place where you have chosen to be worshiped. Hear me when I face this Temple and pray.
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 Samuel 7:13
I will allow no one to take his long lasting kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for me.
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 23:6
He removed the pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah from the temple. He took it to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. There he burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust, and threw its ashes on the tombs of the common people.
2 Kings 23:27
Jehovah said: I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel. I will have nothing more to do with this town. It is Jerusalem my town. And the holy house of which I said: 'My name will be there.'
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.
2 Chronicles 7:16
I have chosen and declared this Temple holy so that my name may be placed there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
Jeremiah 32:34
They set up their detestable idols in the Temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.
Deuteronomy 16:21
When you build the altar for Jehovah your God, never plant beside it any tree dedicated to the goddess Asherah.
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 9:7
I will have Israel cut off from the land I gave them. I will abandon this house even though I have made it holy for myself. I will put you out of my sight. Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
2 Chronicles 7:20
I will uproot Israel from the land I gave them. I will reject this Temple that I declared holy for my name. I will make it an example and an object of ridicule for all the people of the world.
2 Chronicles 33:7
Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in God's Temple, where God had said to David and his son Solomon: I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here from generation to generation.
2 Chronicles 33:15
Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol in Jehovah's Temple. He eliminated the altars he had built in the Temple on Jehovah's mountain and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:9
If you come back to me and obey my orders, even if you have been forced out and are living in the farthest horizons, I will gather you from there, and bring you to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my name.'
Psalm 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you purchased long ago. For you have redeemed it to be the tribe of your inheritance, Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
Psalm 78:68-69
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion he loved.
Psalm 132:13-14
Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home.