“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Even heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you. How much less this house which I have built!
But 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?
I know a human in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up into the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body, I don’t know—God knows.
Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive y’all nor mislead y’all in this way. Y’all should not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my predecessors. How much less will y’all’s God deliver y’all from my hand?”
If y’all then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to y’all’s children, how much more will y’all’s Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “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.
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that YHWH God might dwell there.
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, YHWH my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;