NET Bible
"Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there."
— 2 Chronicles 7:16, NET Bible
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
When I close up the sky so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, or send a plague among my people,
if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Now I will be attentive and responsive to the prayers offered in this place.
Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.
Then I will establish your dynasty, just as I promised your father David,‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’
“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,