5 ^v‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I ^wchose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;

6 but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have ^xchosen David to be over my people Israel.’

20 that your ⁱeyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to ^jset your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers ^ktoward this place.

13 So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had ^echosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

9 ^z‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,¹ or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for ^ayour name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’

4 And he built altars ^zin the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^a“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

7 And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, ^fof 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, I will put my name forever,