2 Chronicles 6:18
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
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!
“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
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 builded!
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- But will
- Exodus 29:45, 46; 1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 68:18; Psalm 113:5, 6; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:1; Acts 7:48, 49; Acts 17:24
- 2 Chronicles 6:18
- heaven.{Hashshamayim ooshemey hashshamayim} "the heavens and the heavens of heavens;" which words seem to imply that there are systems and systems of systems, each possessing its sun, its primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and graduated order which we find to prevail in our solar system; which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is, to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit to that of Georgium Sidus.
- 2 Chronicles 2:6; Psalm 139:7–10; Jeremiah 23:24; 2 Corinthians 12:2
- how much
- 2 Chronicles 32:15; Job 4:19; Job 9:14; Job 25:4–6; Matthew 7:11