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1 Samuel 16 1
The Lord said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected a king from his sons.”
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2 Samuel 7 4-2 Samuel 7 8
But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan:“ Go to My servant David and say,‘ This is what the Lord says: Are you to build a house for Me to live in?From the time I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until today I have not lived in a house; instead, I have been moving around with a tent as My dwelling.In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked anyone among the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel: Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’“ Now this is what you are to say to My servant David:‘ This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.
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1 Kings 8 29
so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, toward the place where You said: My name will be there, and so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
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1 Chronicles 28 4
“ Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s household to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s household, and from my father’s sons, He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
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Deuteronomy 12:11
then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.
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1 Chronicles 17 5-1 Chronicles 17 6
From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today I have not lived in a house; instead, I have moved from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.In all My travels throughout Israel, have I ever spoken a word to even one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, asking: Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
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Psalms 132:13
For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
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2 Kings 23 27
For the Lord had said,“ I will also remove Judah from My sight just as I have removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, that I have chosen, and the temple about which I said,‘ My name will be there.’”
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Psalms 78:70
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
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Deuteronomy 12:5
Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.
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Nehemiah 1:9
But if you return to Me and carefully observe My commands, even though your exiles were banished to the ends of the earth, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have My name dwell.”
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1 Kings 11 36
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for Myself to put My name there.
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Psalms 89:19-20
You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones and said:“ I have granted help to a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.I have found David My servant; I have anointed him with My sacred oil.
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2 Chronicles 6 5-2 Chronicles 6 11
“ Since the day I brought My people Israel out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that My name would be there, and I have not chosen a man to be ruler over My people Israel.But I have chosen Jerusalem so that My name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.”Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.However, Yahweh said to my father David,“ Since it was your desire to build a temple for My name, you have done well to have this desire.Yet, you are not the one to build the temple, but your son, your own offspring, will build the temple for My name.”So Yahweh has fulfilled what He promised. I have taken the place of my father David and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised. I have built the temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.I have put the ark there, where Yahweh’s covenant is that He made with the Israelites.
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Jeremiah 7:12
“ But return to My place that was at Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at first. See what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.