Cross references

2 Chronicles 7:16

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.

2 Chronicles 7:16 BSB

2 Chronicles 7:16 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Chronicles 7:15 (12 votes) and 2 Chronicles 7:12 (10 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Exodus 20 to Colossians 2.

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Which verses does 2 Chronicles 7:16 point to?

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

  1. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

  2. the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

  3. ‘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.’

  4. And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

  5. May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

  6. Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” …

  7. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

  8. Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven. …

  9. “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

  10. And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”

  11. and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Which verses point to 2 Chronicles 7:16?

The 10 strongest of 12.