2 Chronicles 6:18

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“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

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  • 2 Chr 2:6 : 6 Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?
  • Ps 113:5-6 : 5 Who can compare to the LORD our God, who sits on a high throne? 6 He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.
  • Ps 139:7-9 : 7 Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence? 8 If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be. 9 If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea, 10 even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • Exod 29:45-46 : 45 I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 46 and they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the LORD their God.
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • 2 Chr 32:15 : 15 Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how can your gods rescue you from my power?’”
  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Job 9:14 : 14 The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
  • Job 25:4-6 : 4 How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure? 5 If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned, 6 how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
  • Ps 68:18 : 18 You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the LORD God lives there!
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
  • Matt 7:11 : 11 If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
  • Acts 7:48-49 : 48 Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says, 49 ‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?
  • Acts 17:24 : 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,
  • 2 Cor 12:2 : 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:26-28
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    26Now, O God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant, my father David, be realized.

    27“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

    28But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

  • 2 Chr 2:5-6
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    86%

    5I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

    6Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him.

  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
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    80%

    1Then Solomon said,“The LORD has said that he lives in thick darkness.

    2O LORD, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • 2 Chr 6:19-20
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    19But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you.

    20Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place.

  • 2 Chr 6:17
    78%

    17Now, O LORD God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized.

  • Acts 7:47-49
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    47But Solomon built a house for him.

    48Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,

    49‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

  • Isa 66:1
    78%

    1This is what the LORD says:“The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

  • 1 Chr 17:4-6
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    77%

    4“Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD says:“You must not build me a house in which to live.

    5For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places.

    6Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’

  • 2 Sam 7:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5“Go, tell my servant David:‘This is what the LORD has said: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

    6I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.

    7Wherever I moved among all the Israelites, I did not say to any of their leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,“Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?”’

  • 2 Sam 7:27
    77%

    27for you, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant,‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you.

  • 2 Chr 6:7-11
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    76%

    7Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.

    8The LORD told my father David,‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

    9But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’

    10The LORD has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the LORD God of Israel

    11and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with the Israelites.”

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    76%

    5So I have decided to build a temple to honor the LORD my God, as the LORD instructed my father David,‘Your son, whom I will put on your throne in your place, is the one who will build a temple to honor me.’

  • 1 Chr 17:25
    76%

    25for you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a dynasty for him. That is why your servant has had the courage to pray to you.

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    76%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • 2 Chr 6:32-34
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    32“Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

    33Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

    34“When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

  • 1 Kgs 6:12-13
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    76%

    12“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.

    13I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    76%

    13O LORD, truly I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
    75%

    2The temple King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    75%

    16Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
    75%

    3The LORD said to him,“I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    75%

    17The main hall in front of the inner sanctuary was 60 feet long.

  • 1 Chr 29:16
    75%

    16O LORD our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.

  • 1 Kgs 6:19
    74%

    19He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    74%

    19And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD?

  • Hag 1:8
    74%

    8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 17:16
    74%

    16David Praises God King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said:“Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

  • Ps 26:8
    74%

    8O LORD, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

  • 1 Kgs 8:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the LORD God of Israel.

    18The LORD told my father David,‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.

    19But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’

  • 1 Kgs 8:43
    74%

    43Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

  • 1 Chr 28:2
    74%

    2King David rose to his feet and said:“Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the LORD’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.