2 Chronicles 2:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ The house which I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The house which I am to build is great, for our God is greater than all gods.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.

Common English Bible

⁵ The temple I am about to build must be magnificent, because our God is greater than all other gods.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For the house that I desire to build is great. For our God is great, above all gods.

2 Chronicles 2:5 Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

1 Kings 9:8

And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

1 Chronicles 16:25

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.

1 Chronicles 29:1

And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great; for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 29:14

“But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from thee, and of thy own have we given thee.

2 Chronicles 2:9

to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 29:11

My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, and to be his ministers and burn incense to him.”

2 Chronicles 6:18

“But will God dwell indeed with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

Psalm 135:5

For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Psalm 145:3

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

Exodus 15:11

“Who is like thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like thee, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.”

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Jeremiah 10:6

There is none like thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Ezekiel 7:20

Their beautiful ornament they used for vainglory, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it; therefore I will make it an unclean thing to them.

1 Timothy 6:15

and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,