2 Chronicles 2:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and who doth retain strength to build to Him a house, for the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Him? and who `am' I that I do build to Him a house, except to make perfume before Him?

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 (for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!
  • Isa 66:1 : 1 Thus said Jehovah: The heavens `are' My throne, And the earth My footstool, Where `is' this -- the house that ye build for Me? And where `is' this -- the place -- My rest?
  • Exod 3:11 : 11 And Moses saith unto God, `Who `am' I, that I go unto Pharaoh, and that I bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt?'
  • Deut 12:5-6 : 5 but unto the place which Jehovah your God doth choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His tabernacle ye seek, and thou hast entered thither, 6 and hast brought in thither your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock;
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 `And it hath been, the place on which Jehovah your God doth fix to cause His name to tabernacle there, thither ye bring in all that which I am commanding you, your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all the choice of your vows which ye vow to Jehovah;
  • Deut 12:14 : 14 except in the place which Jehovah doth choose in one of thy tribes, there thou dost cause thy burnt-offerings to ascend, and there thou dost do all that which I am commanding thee.
  • Deut 12:26 : 26 `Only, thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou dost take up, and hast gone in unto the place which Jehovah doth choose,
  • 2 Sam 7:18 : 18 And king David cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who `am' I, Lord Jehovah? and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?
  • Acts 7:48-49 : 48 `But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith: 49 The heaven `is' My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what `is' the place of My rest?
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,
  • 1 Chr 29:14 : 14 yea, because, who `am' I, and who `are' my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee `is' the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee;
  • 2 Chr 1:10 : 10 now, wisdom and knowledge give to me, and I go out before this people, and I come in, for who doth judge this Thy great people?'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 2:4-5
    2 verses
    88%

    4lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to sanctify `it' to Him, to make perfume before Him, perfume of spices, and a continual arrangement, and burnt-offerings at morning and at evening, at sabbaths, and at new moons, and at appointed seasons of Jehovah our God; to the age this `is' on Israel.

    5`And the house that I am building `is' great, for greater `is' our God than all gods;

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    86%

    18(for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)

  • 1 Kgs 8:27
    85%

    27But, is it true? -- God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    79%

    9even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building `is' great and wonderful.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5
    79%

    5and lo, I am saying to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son whom I appoint in thy stead on thy throne, he doth build the house for My name.

  • 1 Chr 17:6
    76%

    6whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel, a word spake I, with one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars?

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    76%

    2and I -- I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a fixed place for Thy dwelling to the ages.'

  • 1 Chr 28:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And David the king riseth on his feet, and saith, `Hear me, my brethren and my people, I -- with my heart -- to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build,

    3and God hath said to me, Thou dost not build a house to My name, for a man of wars thou `art', and blood thou hast shed.

  • 2 Sam 7:5
    76%

    5`Go, and thou hast said unto My servant, unto David, Thus said Jehovah, Dost thou build for Me a house for My dwelling in?

  • 2 Chr 6:7-10
    4 verses
    75%

    7`And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah God of Israel,

    8and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

    9but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

    10`And Jehovah doth establish His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

  • 1 Chr 29:16
    75%

    16`O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, `is' out of Thy hand, and of Thee `is' the whole.

  • Hag 1:8
    75%

    8Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.

  • 2 Sam 7:7
    75%

    7During all `the time' that I have walked up and down among all the sons of Israel, a word have I spoken with one of the tribes of Israel which I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, `Why have ye not built to Me a house of cedars?

  • 1 Chr 22:5-8
    4 verses
    75%

    5And David saith, `Solomon my son `is' a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah `is' to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.

    6And he calleth for Solomon his son, and chargeth him to build a house to Jehovah, God of Israel,

    7and David saith to Solomon his son, `As for me, it hath been with my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God,

    8and the word of Jehovah `is' against me, saying, Blood in abundance thou hast shed, and great wars thou hast made: thou dost not build a house to My name, for much blood thou hast shed to the earth before Me.

  • Acts 7:47-49
    3 verses
    75%

    47and Solomon built Him an house.

    48`But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

    49The heaven `is' My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what `is' the place of My rest?

  • 2 Sam 7:27
    75%

    27For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer;

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
    74%

    2As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits `is' its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.

  • Ezra 1:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2`Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, God of the heavens, given to me, and He hath laid a charge on me to build to Him a house in Jerusalem, that `is' in Judah;

    3who `is' among you of all His people? His God is with him, and he doth go up to Jerusalem, that `is' in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah, God of Israel -- He `is' God -- that `is' in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 17:4
    74%

    4`Go, and thou hast said unto David My servant, Thus said Jehovah, Thou dost not build for Me the house to dwell in:

  • Isa 66:1
    74%

    1Thus said Jehovah: The heavens `are' My throne, And the earth My footstool, Where `is' this -- the house that ye build for Me? And where `is' this -- the place -- My rest?

  • 1 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.'

    2And David saith to gather the sojourners who `are' in the land of Israel, and appointeth hewers to hew hewn-stones to build a house of God.

  • 1 Kgs 8:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19only, thou dost not build the house, but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

    20`And Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake, and I am risen up instead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    73%

    6to artificers, and to builders, and `to repairers of' the wall, and to buy wood and hewn stones to strengthen the house;

  • 1 Chr 17:25
    73%

    25for Thou, O my God, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant -- to build to him a house, therefore hath Thy servant found to pray before Thee.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
    73%

    12And Huram saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, knowing wisdom and understanding, who doth build a house for Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

  • 2 Chr 2:7
    73%

    7`And now, send to me a wise man to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and knowing to grave gravings with the wise men who `are' with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared;

  • 2 Chr 2:1
    73%

    1And Solomon saith to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom,

  • 1 Kgs 8:17
    73%

    17`And it is with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

  • 1 Chr 17:16
    72%

    16And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who `am' I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?

  • 1 Kgs 6:17
    72%

    17And forty by the cubit was the house, it `is' the temple before `it'.

  • Heb 3:4
    72%

    4for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is' God,

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    72%

    12he doth build for Me a house, and I have established his throne unto the age;

  • 1 Chr 29:1
    72%

    1And David the king saith to all the assembly, `Solomon my son -- the one on whom God hath fixed -- `is' young and tender, and the work `is' great, for not for man is the palace, but for Jehovah God;

  • 2 Sam 7:18
    72%

    18And king David cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who `am' I, Lord Jehovah? and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?

  • 1 Chr 28:10
    72%

    10See, now, for Jehovah hath fixed on thee to build a house for a sanctuary; be strong, and do.'

  • Ezra 5:11
    72%

    11`And thus they have returned us word, saying, We `are' servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built many years before this, that a great king of Israel built and finished:

  • 1 Kgs 6:7
    72%

    7And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought `thither' hath been built, and hammer, and the axe -- any instrument of iron -- was not heard in the house, in its being built.