Isaiah 66:1

This is what Yahweh says, 1 “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I may rest? 1

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Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

In Context

2My hand has made all these things; that is how these things came to be—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1 This is the man of whom I approve, the broken and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my word. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:5“Go and tell David my servant, 'This is what Yahweh says: Will you build me a house in which to live?

1 Kings 8:27But will God actually live on the earth? Look, the entire universe and heaven itself cannot contain you—how much less can this temple that I have built!

2 Chronicles 2:5The house that I will build will be very large, for our God is greater than all other gods.

Psalms 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple; 1 his eyes watch, his eyes examine the children of mankind. 1

Psalms 132:7We will go into God's tabernacle; 1 we will worship at his footstool. 1

Jeremiah 7:4Do not entrust yourself to deceitful words and say, “Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh! Temple of Yahweh!”

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 →

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