1Ki 8:16 Cross References

1 Kings 8:16

16: For he told my father, `From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among the tribes of Israel as the place where a temple should be built to honor my name. But now I have chosen David to be king over my people.'"

1 Samuel 16:1

  1. Finally, the LORD said to Samuel, "You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel. Now fill your horn with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my new king."

Deuteronomy 12:11

  1. you must bring everything I command you--your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and your offerings to fulfill a vow--to the place the LORD your God will choose for his name to be honored.

1 Kings 8:29

  1. May you watch over this Temple both day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.

2 Samuel 7:4

  1. But that same night the LORD said to Nathan,
  2. "Go and tell my servant David, `This is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build me a temple to live in?
  3. I have never lived in a temple, from the day I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until now. My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another.
  4. And I have never once complained to Israel's leaders, the shepherds of my people Israel. I have never asked them, "Why haven't you built me a beautiful cedar temple?"'
  5. "Now go and say to my servant David, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: I chose you to lead my people Israel when you were just a shepherd boy, tending your sheep out in the pasture.

1 Chronicles 28:4

  1. "Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, has chosen me from among all my father's family to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen the tribe of Judah to rule, and from among the families of Judah, he chose my father's family. And from among my father's sons, the LORD was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

Psalms 132:13

  1. For the LORD has chosen Jerusalem; he has desired it as his home.

1 Chronicles 17:5

  1. I have never lived in a temple, from the day I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until now. My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another.
  2. And I never once complained to Israel's leaders, the shepherds of my people. I have never asked them, "Why haven't you built me a beautiful cedar temple?"'

Deuteronomy 12:5

  1. Rather, you must seek the LORD your God at the place he himself will choose from among all the tribes for his name to be honored.

Psalms 89:19

  1. You once spoke in a vision to your prophet and said, "I have given help to a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.
  2. I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

Psalms 78:70

  1. He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.

2 Kings 23:27

  1. For the LORD had said, "I will destroy Judah just as I have destroyed Israel. I will banish the people from my presence and reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the Temple where my name was to be honored."

2 Chronicles 6:5

  1. `From the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among the tribes of Israel as the place where a temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel.
  2. But now I have chosen Jerusalem as that city, and David as that king.'"
  3. Then Solomon said, "My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  4. But the LORD told him, `It is right for you to want to build the Temple to honor my name,
  5. but you will not be the one to do it. One of your sons will build it instead.'

1 Kings 11:36

  1. His son will have one tribe so that the descendants of David my servant will continue to reign in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen to be the place for my name.

Jeremiah 7:12

  1. " `Go to the place at Shiloh where I once put the Tabernacle to honor my name. See what I did there because of all the wickedness of my people, the Israelites.

Nehemiah 1:9

  1. But if you return to me and obey my commands, even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.'
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