2 Chronicles 6:6

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⁶^(A)but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, ^(B)and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

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1 Chronicles 28:4

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⁴Yet the Lord God of Israel ^(A)chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel ^(B)forever. ^(C)For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's ^(D)house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

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2 Chronicles 12:13

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¹³^(A)So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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Psalm 132:13

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¹³For the Lord has ^(A)chosen Zion;
he has ^(B)desired it for his dwelling place:

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Psalm 48:1

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Zion, the City of Our God

A Song. A Psalm of ^(A)the Sons of Korah.

48 ^(B)Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
in ^(C)the city of our God!
His ^(D)holy mountain,

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Psalm 89:19-20

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¹⁹^(A)Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,^[a] and said:
    “I have ^(B)granted help to one who is ^(C)mighty;
    I have exalted one ^(D)chosen from the people.
²⁰^(E)I have found David, my servant;
    with my holy oil I have ^(F)anointed him,

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Footnotes

Psalm 89:19 Some Hebrew manuscripts godly ones

Psalm 78:68-70

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⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he ^(A)loves.
⁶⁹He ^(B)built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
    like the earth, which he has founded forever.
⁷⁰He ^(C)chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheepfolds;

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1 Samuel 16:1

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David Anointed King

16 The Lord said to Samuel, ^(A)“How long will you grieve over Saul, since ^(B)I have rejected him from being king over Israel? ^(C)Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, ^(D)for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”