1 Kings 8:16

Which verses does 1 Kings 8:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. 1 Samuel 16:16 votes

   Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

2. Deuteronomy 12:115 votes

   then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

3. 2 Samuel 7:4–85 votes

   But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying, “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in? …

4. 1 Kings 8:295 votes

   May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

5. 1 Chronicles 28:45 votes

   Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

6. 1 Chronicles 17:5–64 votes

   For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling. In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’

7. Psalm 132:134 votes

   For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

8. 1 Kings 11:363 votes

   I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

9. 2 Chronicles 6:5–113 votes

   ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’ …

10. Psalm 78:703 votes

    He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

11. Psalm 89:19–203 votes
12. Jeremiah 7:123 votes
13. Deuteronomy 12:52 votes
14. 2 Kings 23:272 votes

    For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

15. Nehemiah 1:92 votes

    but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

Which verses point to 1 Kings 8:16?

The 10 strongest of 16.

• Isaiah 42:9 9
• 2 Samuel 7:6 7
• Deuteronomy 12:5 5
• Psalm 89:3 5
• 1 Kings 8:29 4
• 1 Chronicles 17:5 4
• 1 Kings 8:44 3
• 1 Chronicles 22:7 3
• 2 Chronicles 6:1 3
• 2 Chronicles 7:16 3