2 Chronicles 6:18

Solomon marveled that God, whom the highest heavens cannot contain, would dwell with men on earth. He recognized the wonder that the infinite God would draw near in the temple.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 2:6But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?
• Isa 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
• Ps 139:7–10Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
• Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
• 2 Cor 12:2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
• 2 Chr 32:15So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
• Acts 17:24The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
• Matt 7:11So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
• Job 25:4–6How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
• Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
• Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• Ps 68:18You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
• Exod 29:45–46Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
• Jer 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

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