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2 Chronicles 6:17

And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.

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In The King James Version

Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

In Context

16Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: ‘There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.’

18How then is it to be believed that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?

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Cross References

Exodus 24:10And they saw the God of Israel. And under his feet was something like a work of sapphire stone, or like the sky, when it is serene.

2 Chronicles 6:4“Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who has completed the work that he spoke to David my father, saying:

Isaiah 41:17The indigent and the poor are seeking water, but there is none. Their tongue has been dried up by thirst. I, the Lord, will heed them. I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

Jeremiah 11:5So shall I uphold the oath which I swore to your fathers, that I would give them a land flowing with milk and honey, just as it is this day.” And I answered by saying: “Amen, O Lord.”

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 →

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