⁶ But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

⁴ Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

¹³ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

48 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.