But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”

Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

He told David, ‘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. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

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.

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.