35 occurrences

'Name' in the Bible

Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Places

“You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfFootstoolsFeetPeople's Inability To Serve GodSolomon's TemplePeople OvercomingReady For WarA Place For God's NameAll Enemies Under God's Feet

Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesThroneSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel from Egypt, I did not choose a 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.’

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtCovenant, God's with DavidGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptA Place For God's NameGod's Election Of David

Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsA Place For God's Name

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

Verse ConceptsMan's PurposesA Place For God's Name

Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to you, he will build the house for My name.’

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

Now the Lord has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsConfidence, In God's WordThroneA Place For God's Name

that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightCeremoniesA Place For God's NameDirectionGod Answering Prayers

“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,

Verse ConceptsdefeatSin Brings Impoverishment

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

(for they will hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house,

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfStrength Of God

hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name.

Verse ConceptsHousesReverence, And God's NatureGod Acts From HeavenA Place For God's NameKnowing God's Character

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

Verse ConceptsPrinciples Of WarA Place For God's Name

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

Verse ConceptsBuilding God's DwellingWhole HeartednessA Place For God's Name

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineHoliness, Believers' Growth InHoliness, As Set Apart For GodHoliness, Purpose OfPrayer, Answers ToReceptivenessWatchfulness, DivineGod Answered PrayerGod Pays AttentionA Place For God's Namesupplication

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentThreateningsFunjoking

Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with difficult questions.

Verse ConceptsCaravansFameMission, Of IsraelQueensCelebritiesAskingRelationships And Datingconnection

Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king.

Verse ConceptsActual Widows

But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.

Verse ConceptsCityJerusalem, Significance OfA Place For God's Name

He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Verse ConceptsCityelection, privileges ofJerusalem, Significance OfJerusalem, History Of15 To 20 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of KingsA Place For God's Name

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsHeirsMothers Of KingsBuried In The City Of DavidKings Of All Israel Or Judah

He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Verse ConceptsThree YearsMothers Of Kings

He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsMothers Of KingsGrandmothers

He bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

Verse ConceptsBuildingCoinage

Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God who answers by fire, He is God.” And all the people said, “That is a good idea.”

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodFire From HeavenGod Will AnswerDiscerning God's ThingsGod Answering Prayersanswers

So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

Verse ConceptsChoosing ThingsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other GodsPutting God FirstCompetitionjezebel

Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made.

Verse ConceptsLeapingdanceMorning WorshipMorningReligionPeople JumpingOthers Not AnsweringHinduism

Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveJacob, The PatriarchGod Renaming PeopleTwelve TribesTwelve Things

So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsWeights And Measures, DryOther Volume Measures

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

Verse ConceptsLettersNoblesSealsjezebel

Then the king said to him, “How many times must I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”

Verse ConceptsAdjurationGod's Word Is True

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History Of20 To 30 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

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