2 Chronicles 7:12

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

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  • Deut 12:11 : 11 then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 9:2 : 2 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
  • 2 Kgs 2:6 : 6 Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They both went on.
  • 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 "Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 1:7 : 7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."
  • 2 Chr 7:16 : 16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
  • Ps 66:19 : 19 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. 14 "This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
  • Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
  • Acts 10:31 : 31 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
  • 1 John 5:14-15 : 14 This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. 15 And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
  • Deut 12:5-6 : 5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you shall seek, and there you shall come; 6 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the wave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock:

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  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
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    7 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you."

    8 Solomon said to God, "You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 9:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1 It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

    2 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

    3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 2 Chr 7:1
    79%

    1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.

  • 1 Kgs 3:4-6
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    4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.

    5 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."

    6 Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 2 Chr 7:15-16
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    15 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

    16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11-12
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    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

    12 "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

  • Acts 7:47
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    47 But Solomon built him a house.

  • 1 Chr 28:5-6
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    5 Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh's kingdom over Israel.

    6 He said to me, 'Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

  • 2 Sam 7:27
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    27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

  • 1 Chr 22:6-7
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    6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    7 David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

  • 1 Kgs 8:12-13
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    12 Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

    13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
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    1 Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

    2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."

  • 2 Chr 7:11
    76%

    11 Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
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    10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7 He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
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    1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
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    7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, 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, will I put my name forever:

  • 2 Chr 7:7
    74%

    7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat.

  • 1 Kgs 8:29
    74%

    29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

  • 1 Chr 29:1
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    1 David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

  • 2 Sam 7:4-5
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    4 It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

    5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

  • 1 Kgs 3:15
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    15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

  • 2 Chr 6:20
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    20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

  • 2 Chr 7:4-5
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    4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.

    5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

  • 2 Sam 7:7
    73%

    7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

  • 2 Chr 6:7
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    7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
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    22 Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
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    5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.'

  • 2 Chr 7:13
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    13 "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

  • 1 Kgs 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 Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

  • 2 Chr 2:4
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    4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is [an ordinance] forever to Israel.

  • 2 Chr 6:34
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    34 "If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
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    27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

  • 1 Chr 17:25
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    25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.