Quotes about Name
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
— 2 Samuel 18:18
Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
— 2 Samuel 22:50
“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.
— 1 Kings 5:3
So behold, I plan to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God, according to what the LORD said to my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the house for My Name.’
— 1 Kings 5:5
‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
— 1 Kings 8:16
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
— 1 Kings 8:17
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
— 1 Kings 8:18
Now the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
— 1 Kings 8:20
And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
— 1 Kings 8:41
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
— 1 Kings 8:44
I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
— 1 Kings 11:36
He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
— 1 Kings 16:24