II Chronicles 7:12, 16, 20

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.