◄ 2 Chronicles 6:6 ►
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Good News Translation
But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place where I will be worshiped, and you, David, to rule my people.'"

New Revised Standard Version
but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

New American Bible
but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

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But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 12:13 King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.

Psalm 48:1 A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of the week. [2] Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Psalm 78:68-70 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. . . .

Psalm 132:13 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.

Isaiah 14:32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.

chosen David

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

1 Chronicles 28:4 But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the princes: and of the house of Juda, my father's house: and among the sons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.

Psalm 89:19,20 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. . . .

Context
Solomon Praises the LORD
…5From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel. 6But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.7And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel,…
Cross References
Exodus 20:24
You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

1 Chronicles 28:4
But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the princes: and of the house of Juda, my father's house: and among the sons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:5
From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel, for a house to be built in it to my name: neither chose I any other man, to be the ruler of my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 12:13
King Roboam therefore was strengthened in Jerusalem, and reigned: he was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel, to establish his name there: and the name of his mother was Naama an Ammonitess.

Zechariah 2:12
And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion in the sanctified land: and he shall yet choose Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 6:5
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