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2 Chronicles 6:18

For will God indeed dwell with men upon the earth? if the heaven and the heaven of heavens will not suffice you, what then is this house which I have built?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

In Context

17And now, Lord God of Israel, let, I pray you, your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.

19Yet you shall have respect to the prayer of your servant, and to my petition, O Lord God, so as to listen to the petition and the prayer which your servant prays before you this day:

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Cross References

Exodus 29:46And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, to be + 29:46 Or, named. called upon by them, and to be their God.

2 Chronicles 2:5And the house which I am building is to be great: for the Lord our God is great beyond all gods.

2 Chronicles 32:15Now then, let not Ezekias deceive you, and let him not make you thus confident, and believe him not: for no god of any kingdom or nation is at all able to deliver his people out of my hand, or the hand of my fathers: therefore your God shall not deliver you out of my hand.

Job 9:14Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause.

Psalms 68:18Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 1

Psalms 139:7O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; you have screened my head in the day of battle. 1

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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