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2 Chronicles 6:6
but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

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2 Chronicles 6:5
‘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 to build a house in, that my name might be there, and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;

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 to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

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2 Chronicles 7:16
For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

Psalms 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

2 Chronicles 12:13
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Psalms 48:1
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalms 132:13
For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Psalms 132:14
“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

Psalms 87:2
Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 12:5
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

Psalms 76:2
His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.

Isaiah 14:32
What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

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