"Sovereign LORD, may you always look with favor on your people Israel and their king, and hear their prayer whenever they call to you for help.

Now, LORD, look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.

Watch over this Temple day and night. You have promised that this is where you will be worshiped, so hear me when I face this Temple and pray.

"Now, O my God, look on us and listen to the prayers offered in this place.

I will watch over this Temple and be ready to hear all the prayers that are offered here,

The LORD keeps close watch over the whole world, to give strength to those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly, and so from now on you will always be at war."

Look at me, LORD, and hear my prayer, as I pray day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess that we, the people of Israel, have sinned. My ancestors and I have sinned.

The LORD watches over the righteous and listens to their cries;

Listen to us, O God; look at us and see the trouble we are in and the suffering of the city that bears your name. We are praying to you because you are merciful, not because we have done right.

'From the time I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen any city in all the land of Israel in which a temple should be built where I would be worshiped. But I chose you, David, to rule my people.' "

listen to his prayer. In heaven, where you live, hear him and do what he asks you to do, so that all the peoples of the world may know you and obey you, as your people Israel do. Then they will know that this Temple I have built is the place where you are to be worshiped.

but I will let Solomon's son keep one tribe, so that I will always have a descendant of my servant David ruling in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen as the place where I am worshiped.

Make an altar of earth for me, and on it sacrifice your sheep and your cattle as offerings to be completely burned and as fellowship offerings. In every place that I set aside for you to worship me, I will come to you and bless you.

The LORD will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the LORD.

Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the LORD your God.

(SEE 16:5)

each of you must place in a basket the first part of each crop that you harvest and you must take it with you to the one place of worship.

He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped.

He placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the Temple, the place about which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.

The LORD said, "I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshiped."

'From the time I brought my people out of Egypt until now, I did not choose any city in the land of Israel as the place to build a temple where I would be worshiped, and I did not choose anyone to lead my people Israel.

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place where I will be worshiped, and you, David, to rule my people.' "

Watch over this Temple day and night. You have promised that this is where you will be worshiped, so hear me when I face this Temple and pray.

because I have chosen it and consecrated it as the place where I will be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time.

They have lived here and have built a temple to honor you, knowing

He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped forever.

He placed an image in the Temple, the place about which God had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.

But then if you turn back to me and do what I have commanded you, I will bring you back to the place where I have chosen to be worshiped, even though you are scattered to the ends of the earth.'

And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.

If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.

When Daniel learned that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced toward Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day.