"But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel."
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And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.