2 Chronicles 7:16

New King James Version

For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

King James Version
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

English Standard Version
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.

New Century Version
I have chosen this Temple and made it holy. So I will be worshiped there forever. Yes, I will always watch over it and love it.

New English Translation
Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

Amplified Bible
"For now I have chosen and sanctified and set apart for My purpose this house that My Name may be here forever, and My eyes and My heart will be here perpetually.

New American Standard Bible
"For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there always.

World English Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I haue nowe chosen and sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes & mine heart shalbe there perpetually.

Legacy Standard Bible
So now I have chosen and set this house apart as holy that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Berean Standard Bible
For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

Contemporary English Version
because it belongs to me, and this is where I will be worshiped forever. I will never stop watching over it.

Complete Jewish Bible
For now I have chosen and consecrated this house, so that my name can be there forever; my eyes and heart will always be there.

Darby Translation
for I have now chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Easy-to-Read Version
I have chosen this Temple, and I have made it a holy place. So I will be honored there forever. I will watch over it and think of it always.

George Lamsa Translation
For now I have chosen this house for myself, that my glory may be in it for ever, and that my good works and my will shall be done in the midst of it perpetually.

Good News Translation
because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.

Lexham English Bible
And now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Literal Translation
and now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever; yea, My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus haue I now chosen this house, and sanctifyed it, that my name maye be there for euer: and myne eyes and my hert shal allwaye be there.

American Standard Version
For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Bible in Basic English
For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And therfore nowe I haue chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for euer: and myne eyes and myne heart shalbe there perpetually.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

King James Version (1611)
For now haue I chosen, & sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes and mine heart shalbe there perpetually.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name should be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

English Revised Version
For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for Y haue chose, and halewid this place, that my name be there with outen ende, and that myn iyen and myn herte dwelle there in alle daies.

Update Bible Version
For now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Webster's Bible Translation
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

New Living Translation
For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

New Life Bible
For I have chosen this house and have made it holy, that My name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will always be there.

New Revised Standard
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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my Name may be there, unto times age-abiding, - and mine eyes and my heart shall he there, all the days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.

Revised Standard Version
For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Young's Literal Translation
and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name being there unto the age; yea, Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Contextual Overview

¹² 1 Kings 9:1-9">[xr] Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. ¹³ When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, ¹⁴ if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. ¹⁵ Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. ¹⁶ For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. ¹⁷ As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, ¹⁸ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, "You shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.' ¹⁹ "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, ²⁰ then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. ²¹ "And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, "Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have I chosen: Deuteronomy 12:21, Deuteronomy 16:11, 1 Kings 8:16, 1 Kings 8:44, 1 Kings 8:48, Psalms 132:14, Zechariah 3:2

my name: 2 Chronicles 6:5, 2 Chronicles 6:6, 2 Chronicles 6:20, 2 Chronicles 33:4-7, 1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 9:3, 2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 21:8

eyes: 2 Chronicles 7:15, Matthew 3:17, John 2:19-21, Colossians 2:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:24 - in all places 1 Kings 8:29 - My name 2 Kings 19:1 - went into 2 Chronicles 7:12 - have chosen Ezra 6:12 - caused Haggai 1:8 - and I will take John 4:20 - and ye

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Luke 17:26,27">[xr] Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:2
You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

Genesis 7:3
also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

Genesis 7:10
And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, "Destroy!'

Psalms 46:2
Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Proverbs 3:23
Then you will walk safely in your way, And your foot will not stumble.

Matthew 25:10
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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