Isaiah 66:1
Thus saith Hashem: 1 HaShomayim is My kisse, 1 and ha'aretz is My footstool; 1 where is the Beis that ye build for Me? 1 And where is the Makom of My Menuchah? 1
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2 Samuel 7:5Go and tell Avdi Dovid, Thus saith Hashem, Shalt thou build Me a Bais for Me to dwell in?
1 Kings 8:27But will Elohim indeed dwell on ha'aretz? Hinei, the Shomayim and the Shemei HaShomayim cannot contain Thee; how much less this Bayit that I have built?
2 Chronicles 2:5But who has the ko'ach to build Him a Bais, seeing the Shomayim and Shomayim of Shomayim cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a Bais, except to burn sacrifices before Him?
Psalms 11:4Hashem is in His Heikhal Kodesh, 1 Hashemʼs kisse is in Shomayim; 1 His eyes examine, 1 His eyelids try, Bnei Adam. 1
Psalms 132:7We will go into His mishkanot; 1 we will worship at the hadom (footstool) of His raglayim. 1
Jeremiah 7:4Trust ye not in divrei hasheker (lying words, words of falsehood), saying, This is the Heikhal Hashem, the Heikhal Hashem, the Heikhal Hashem.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 66:1
The scope of this chapter is much the same as that of the foregoing chapter and many expressions of it are the same; it therefore looks the same way, to the different state of the good and bad among the Jews at their return out of captivity, but that typifying the rejection of the Jews in the days of the Messiah, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the setting up of the gospel-kingdom in the world. The first verse of this chapter is applied by Stephen to the dismantling of the temple by the planting of the… Read the whole commentary →