2 Chronicles 7:16

Literal Standard Version

and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My Name being there for all time; indeed, My eyes and My heart have been there [for] all the days.

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 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.

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

¹²And YHWH appears to Solomon by night and says to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have fixed on this place for Myself for a house of sacrifice. ¹³If I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people— ¹⁴and My people on whom My Name is called are humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁵Now My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place; ¹⁶and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My Name being there for all time; indeed, My eyes and My heart have been there [for] all the days.¹⁷And you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments— ¹⁸then I have established the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, A man of yours is never cut off [from] ruling in Israel; ¹⁹and if you turn back—you—and have forsaken My statutes and My commands that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them—then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them, ²⁰and this house that I have sanctified for My Name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb and for a byword among all the peoples. ²¹And this house that has been high is an astonishment to everyone passing by it, and he has said, Why has YHWH done thus to this land and to 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
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;

Genesis 7:2
you take seven pairs from all the clean beasts to yourself, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean—two, a male and its female;

Genesis 7:3
also, seven pairs from [each] bird of the heavens, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

Genesis 7:4
for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground."

Genesis 7:5
And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.

Genesis 7:10
And it comes to pass, after seven days, that waters of the flood have been on the earth.

Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God [is] a habitation, || And beneath [are] continuous arms. And He casts out the enemy from your presence and says, Destroy!

Psalms 46:2
Therefore we do not fear in the changing of earth, || And in the slipping of mountains || Into the heart of the seas.

Proverbs 3:23
Then you go your way confidently, || And your foot does not stumble.

Matthew 25:10
And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the wedding feasts, and the door was shut;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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