16 ^r‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I ^schose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I ^tchose David to be over my people Israel.’

29 that your ^feyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ^g‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers ^htoward this place.

3 And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by ^vputting my name there forever. My ^weyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

21 ^fNow Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had ^gchosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to ^hput his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.