Text: 2 Chronicles 7:12
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 12:5
Subject: Temple worship and sacrificial system
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: God's declaration "I have chosen this place for Myself" (2 Chr 7:12) explicitly confirms the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 12:5's instruction to "seek the place the LORD your God will choose...to establish as a dwelling for His Name." The key verb bachar ("choose") appears in both texts: Deuteronomy uses it as future promise, while God's speech in Chronicles uses it as accomplished fact. This verbal link between Mosaic anticipation and Solomonic realization creates a canonical bridge, demonstrating that Jerusalem's temple is the divinely appointed answer to the Deuteronomic centralization mandate.