2 Kings 21:7
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7 The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:16
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16 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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1 Kings 9:3
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3 The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea that you made before me; I have consecrated this house that you have built and put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.(A)
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1 Kings 8:29
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29 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.(A)
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2 Samuel 7:13
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13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.(A)
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Jeremiah 32:34
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34 They set up their abominations in the house that bears my name and defiled it.(A)
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Psalm 132:13-14
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13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his habitation:(A)
14 “This is my resting place forever;
here I will reside, for I have desired it.
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’(A)
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2 Chronicles 33:15
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15 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 out of the city.(A)
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2 Chronicles 33:7
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7 The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:20
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20 then I will pluck you[a] up from the land that I have given you,[b] and this house, which I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.(A)
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2 Chronicles 7:12
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God’s Second Appearance to Solomon
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.(A)
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2 Kings 23:27
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27 The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will reject this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’ ”(A)
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2 Kings 23:6
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6 He brought out the image of[a] Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust, and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.(A)
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2 Kings 21:4
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4 He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 16:21
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Forbidden Forms of Worship
21 “You shall not plant any tree as a sacred pole[a] beside the altar that you make for the Lord your God,(A)
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Psalm 78:68-69
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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)
Psalm 74:2
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2 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,
which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.
Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.(A)
1 Kings 9:7
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7 then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.(A)
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1 Kings 8:44
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44 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,
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