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 him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?
• Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
• Ps 139:7–10Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
• Acts 7:48–49However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
• 2 Cor 12:2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
• Ps 113:5–6Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
• 2 Chr 32:15Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
• Acts 17:24The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,
• Matt 7:11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
• Job 25:4–6How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
• Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
• Job 4:19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• Ps 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
• Exod 29:45–46I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
• Jer 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

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