Nevertheless for David's sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in JERUSALEM, to set up his son after him, and to establish JERUSALEM;

'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

but now I have chosen JERUSALEM, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in JERUSALEM and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in JERUSALEM, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.