Verse 3

The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 11:12 : 12 a land the LORD your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.
  • 2 Kgs 20:5 : 5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people:‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has said:“I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow you will go up to the LORD’s temple.
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 LORD, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.
  • 2 Chr 6:40 : 40 “Now, my God, may you be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
  • 2 Chr 7:15-16 : 15 Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then you must come to the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you– your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
  • Deut 12:21 : 21 If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11 : 10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple. 11 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.
  • Ps 66:19 : 19 However, God heard; he listened to my prayer.
  • Ps 116:1 : 1 I love the LORD because he heard my plea for mercy,
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home. 14 He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.
  • Song 4:9-9 : 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. 10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
  • Dan 9:23 : 23 At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God’s sight. Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,
  • John 11:42 : 42 I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
  • Acts 10:31 : 31 and said,‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.
  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
  • Exod 20:11 : 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
  • Num 16:38 : 38 As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the LORD and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites.”