Psalm 87:2
Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Deuteronomy 12:5
{But only} to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all [of] your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.
2 Chronicles 6:6
But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'
Psalm 78:67-69
And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalm 132:13-14
For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
Isaiah 14:32
And what will one answer [the] messengers of [the] nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.
Joel 2:32
And it will happen--everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be {those who escape}, as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling.