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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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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Genesis 15:12
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
Genesis 15:15
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
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Exodus 23:21
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
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Exodus 40:2
“On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 40:3
You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
1 Kings 8:4
They brought up Yahweh’s ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent. The priests and the Levites brought these up.
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Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.
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Deuteronomy 16:6
but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Ezra 6:12
May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
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Joshua 9:27
That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
2 Chronicles 7:12
Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
John 4:20
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 4:22
You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
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Joshua 21:45
Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
Joshua 23:14
“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
Joshua 23:15
It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
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2 Samuel 6:17
They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
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1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build Yahweh’s house.
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1 Kings 8:51
(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
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1 Kings 8:53
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 2:6
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
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1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
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1 Chronicles 13:6
David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God Yahweh’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
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2 Samuel 7:5
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Yahweh says, “Should you build me a house for me to dwell in?
1 Chronicles 22:7
David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.
1 Chronicles 22:8
But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
1 Chronicles 22:9
Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have shed blood.’
1 Chronicles 28:4
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:6
He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
2 Chronicles 2:4
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
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2 Chronicles 6:4
He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
2 Chronicles 6:7
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:8
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
2 Chronicles 6:9
nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
2 Chronicles 6:10
“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:11
There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”
Ecclesiastes 12:9
Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
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1 Kings 8:43
hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; 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.
2 Chronicles 6:20
that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
2 Chronicles 6:33
then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
2 Chronicles 20:8
They lived in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,
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2 Kings 21:4
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
2 Chronicles 33:7
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
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Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 97:2
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Nahum 1:3
Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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1 Kings 8:48
if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name,
Psalms 51:4
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
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1 Chronicles 29:10
Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
Psalms 72:18
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
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1 Samuel 16:1
Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
2 Samuel 3:18
Now then do it! For Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.’ ”
2 Samuel 6:21
David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore I will celebrate before Yahweh.
2 Samuel 7:10
I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,
2 Samuel 7:11
and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.
2 Samuel 7:12
When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;
2 Samuel 7:15
but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
2 Samuel 23:5
Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Psalms 78:70
He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 89:3
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
Psalms 89:19
Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
Psalms 89:20
I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
Psalms 89:34
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
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2 Samuel 7:26
Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’
1 Kings 8:25
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
1 Kings 11:34
“ ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes,
Psalms 89:28
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
Psalms 89:39
You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Jeremiah 33:20
“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time,
Jeremiah 33:21
then my covenant could also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levitical priests, my ministers.
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Jeremiah 7:12
“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
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Jeremiah 30:9
but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
Ezekiel 34:23
I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:24
I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
Luke 1:32
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
Luke 1:33
and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
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Daniel 9:17
“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
Daniel 9:19
Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
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Zechariah 2:12
Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
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Zechariah 3:2
Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
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John 14:13
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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John 14:14
If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
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Exodus 20:21
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus 24:15
Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
Exodus 24:16
Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
Exodus 24:17
The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Leviticus 16:2
and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
2 Chronicles 6:1
Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Psalms 18:8
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 18:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 18:10
He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
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Psalms 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalms 87:3
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
Isaiah 12:6
Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
Revelation 14:1
I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.
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