Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 7:16

"For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually." — 2 Chronicles 7:16 (ASV)

Have I chosen. — 2 Chronicles 6:6, and 2 Chronicles 7:12, see above.

Sanctified this house. — 1 Kings 9:3. The two accounts are again parallel.

Perpetually. — All the days.