16 I have chosen(A) and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

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15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.(A)

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12 the Lord appeared(A) to him at night and said:

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen(B) this place for myself(C) as a temple for sacrifices.

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‘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. But now I have chosen Jerusalem(A) for my Name(B) to be there, and I have chosen David(C) to rule my people Israel.’

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The Lord said to him:

“I have heard(A) the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name(B) there forever. My eyes(C) and my heart will always be there.

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20 May your eyes(A) be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name(B) there. May you hear(C) the prayer your servant prays toward this place.

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For in Christ all the fullness(A) of the Deity lives in bodily form,

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19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”(A)

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.(B)

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The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you,(A) Satan! The Lord, who has chosen(B) Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick(C) snatched from the fire?”(D)

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14 “This is my resting place for ever and ever;(A)
    here I will sit enthroned,(B) for I have desired it.

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He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “My Name(A) will remain in Jerusalem forever.” In both courts of the temple of the Lord,(B) he built altars to all the starry hosts. He sacrificed his children(C) in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums(D) and spiritists.(E) He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.

He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple,(F) of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.

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He took the carved Asherah pole(A) he had made and put it in the temple,(B) of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name(C) forever. I will not again(D) make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses(E) gave them.”

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He built altars(A) in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”(B)

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48 and if they turn back(A) to you with all their heart(B) and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray(C) to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple(D) I have built for your Name;(E)

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44 “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray(A) to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

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35 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain(A) because your people have sinned(B) against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

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16 ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt,(A) I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name(B) might be there, but I have chosen(C) David(D) to rule my people Israel.’

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11 And rejoice(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name(B)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites(C) in your towns, and the foreigners,(D) the fatherless and the widows living among you.(E)

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21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name(A) is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.(B)

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