2 Chronicles 6:6
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6 but I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’(A)
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2 Chronicles 12:13
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Death of Rehoboam
13 So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign; 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.(A)
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1 Chronicles 28:4
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4 Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my ancestral house to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took delight in making me king over all Israel.(A)
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Psalm 78:68-70
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68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(A)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(B)
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(C)
Isaiah 14:32
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32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
“The Lord has founded Zion,
and the needy among his people
will find refuge in her.”(A)
Psalm 132:13
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13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his habitation:(A)
Psalm 89:19-20
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19 Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one and said,
“I have set the crown[a] on one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.(A)
20 I have found my servant David;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;(B)
Footnotes
- 89.19 Cn: Heb help
Psalm 48:1
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Psalm 48
The Glory and Strength of Zion
A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites.
1 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain,(A)
1 Samuel 16:1
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David Anointed as King
16 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”(A)
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