2 Chronicles 6:5

6:5 He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ³  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ⁴  and repudiate their sinful practices, ⁵  then I will respond ⁶  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 33:7

33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ⁸ 

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the Lord himself, and thus the expression “to be there” refers to his taking up residence there (hence the translation, “a temple in which to live”). In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[7:14]  ³ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ⁷ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[33:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).