2 Chronicles 6:6
◄  2 Chronicles 6:6  ►
New International Version (©2011)
But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place for my name to be honored, and I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But I have chosen Jerusalem so that My name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But I have chosen Jerusalem, where my name will reside. And I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

NET Bible (©2006)
But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But now I've chosen Jerusalem to be a place for my name; I've chosen David to rule my people Israel.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

American King James Version
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

American Standard Version
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

Darby Bible Translation
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

English Revised Version
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

World English Bible
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

Young's Literal Translation
and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-42 Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple. - The order of Solomon's prayer is to be observed. First and chiefly, he prays for repentance and forgiveness, which is the chief blessing, and the only solid foundation of other mercies: he then prays for temporal mercies; thereby teaching us what things to mind and desire most in our prayers. This also Christ hath taught us in his perfect pattern and form of prayer, where there is but one prayer for outward, and all the rest are for spiritual blessings. The temple typified the human nature of Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The ark typified his obedience and sufferings, by which repenting sinners have access to a reconciled God, and communion with him. Jehovah has made our nature his resting-place for ever, in the person of Emmanuel, and through him he dwells with, and delights in his church of redeemed sinners. May our hearts become his resting-place; may Christ dwell therein by faith, consecrating them as his temples, and shedding abroad his love therein. May the Father look upon us in and through his Anointed; and may he remember and bless us in all things, according to his mercy to sinners, in and through Christ.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - (See again references of preceding verse, and 2 Samuel 7:8; Psalm 78:70.) Vers. 7-9. - (So 2 Samuel 7:2, 10-16; 1 Chronicles 22:9, 10; 1 Chronicles 28:2-7.)

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Solomon Blesses the People
…5Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: 6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. 7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. …

Exodus 20:24 "'Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
1 Chronicles 28:4 "Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:5 Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 12:13 King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
Zechariah 2:12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.