2 Chronicles 6:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ But will God indeed live on earth with humans? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But will God actually dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ 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!

Common English Bible

¹⁸ But how could God possibly live on earth with people? If heaven, even the highest heaven, can’t contain you, how can this temple that I have built contain you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ How then is it to be believe that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?

2 Chronicles 6:18 Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

But will God indeed live on earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.

2 Chronicles 2:5

The temple that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than any of the gods.

2 Chronicles 2:6

But who is able to build a temple for him, since even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain him?  Who am I then that I should build a temple for him except as a place to burn incense before him?

2 Chronicles 32:15

So now,  don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, and don’t let him 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. How much less will your God rescue you from my power! ” ’

2 Chronicles 6:17

Now, Lord God of Israel, please confirm what you promised to your servant David.

2 Chronicles 6:19

Listen  to your servant’s prayer and his petition, Lord my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you,

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!

Job 9:14

How then can I answer him or choose my arguments against him?

Isaiah 57:15

For the High and Exalted One, who lives for ever, whose name is holy,  says this: ‘I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the Lord says: Heaven  is my throne, and earth is my footstool. Where could you possibly build a house for me? And where would my resting place be?

Jeremiah 23:24

Can a person hide in secret places where I cannot see him? ’   #– #the Lord’s declaration. ‘Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? ’   #– #the Lord’s declaration.

Matthew 12:6

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

Matthew 7:11

If you then, 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.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it   #– #he is Lord of heaven and earth   #– #does not live in shrines made by hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ who was caught up  to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether he was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.