⁷ And the carved image of ^(A)Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^(B)and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

^16 (A)For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

³ And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, ^(A)by putting my name there forever. ^(B)My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

^29 (A)that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ^(B)‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

^13 (A)He shall build a house for my name, and ^(B)I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

³⁴ They set up ^(A)their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.

^9 (A)but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, ^(B)though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them ^(C)to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’

¹⁵ And ^(A)he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

⁷ And ^(A)the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, ^(B)I will put my name forever,