2 Chronicles 6:2
But I have built a house to your name, holy to you, and prepared for you to dwell in for ever.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.
In Context
1Then said Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in thick darkness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:13He shall build for me a house to my name, and I will set up his throne even for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:12He shall build me a house, and I will set up his throne for ever.
1 Chronicles 28:6And God said to me, Solomon your son shall build my house and my court: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be to him a father.
2 Chronicles 2:4behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer show bread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.
Psalms 135:21and gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endures for ever: 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:2-12
Solomon's Prayer to God. ( b. c. 1004.) 1 Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built a house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. 3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. 4 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, 5 Since the day that I brought forth my… Read the whole commentary →