2 Chronicles 6:18
But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
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17So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, make your word come true which you said to your servant David.
Cross References
Exodus 29:46And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.
2 Chronicles 2:5And the house which I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
2 Chronicles 32:15So do not be tricked by Hezekiah or let him get you to do this, and do not put any faith in what he says: for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to keep his people safe from my hands, or the hands of my fathers: how much less will your God keep you safe from my hands!
Job 9:14How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
Psalms 68:18\68:17\The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
Psalms 139:7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:13-42
12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest… Read the whole commentary →