2 Chronicles 6:5-6

AKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: ⁶ 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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Since the day.
2 Samuel 7:6; 2 Samuel 7:7; 1 Kings 8:16
my name.
Exodus 20:24; Exodus 23:21; Deuteronomy 12:5; Deuteronomy 12:11; Daniel 9:19
neither chose.The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense.
1 Samuel 10:24; 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Samuel 13:14; 1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Samuel 7:15; 2 Samuel 7:16