Isaiah 66:1

New English Translation

This is what the Lord says: “The heavens are my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is the house you will build for me? Where is the place where I will rest?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:27

“God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Chronicles 28:2

King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord’s covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.

2 Chronicles 2:5

I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

2 Chronicles 6:18

“God does not really live with humankind on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

Psalm 11:4

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his eyes examine all people.

Psalm 132:7

Let us go to his dwelling place! Let us worship before his footstool!

Psalm 99:9

Praise the Lord our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the Lord our God is holy!

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Isaiah 60:13

The splendor of Lebanon will come to you, its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together, to beautify my palace; I will bestow honor on my throne room.

Jeremiah 23:24

“Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.

Malachi 1:11

For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 12:6

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

Matthew 24:2

And he said to them, “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,