2 Chronicles 6:18

A Conservative Version

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!

Cross References

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says LORD, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What manner of house will ye build to me, and what place shall be my rest?

2 Chronicles 2:6

But who is able to build for him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? Who am I then, that I should build for him a house, except only to burn incense before him?

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in body, I know not, or whether outside the body, I know not, God knows) such a man was caught up as far as the third heaven.

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,

2 Chronicles 32:15

Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye 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

Matthew 7:11

If ye therefore, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in the heavens will give good things to those who ask him?

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

Psalm 68:18

Thou have ascended on high. Thou have led captivity captive. Thou have received gifts among men, yea, [among] the rebellious also, that LORD God might dwell [with them].

Job 9:14

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?

Job 4:19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

1 Kings 8:27

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built!

Jeremiah 23:24

Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.

Matthew 12:6

But I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here.

2 Chronicles 6:17

Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou spoke to thy servant David.

2 Chronicles 6:19

Yet have thou respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee,

2 Chronicles 2:5

And the house which I build is great. For our God is great above all gods.