Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

New American Standard Bible

And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

King James Version

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Holman Bible

He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that He established forever.

International Standard Version

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

American Standard Version

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Amplified


And He built His sanctuary [exalted] like the heights [of the heavens],
Like the earth which He has established forever.

Bible in Basic English

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

Darby Translation

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will build his holy place as of buffaloes, as the earth he founded it forever.

King James 2000

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he built his sanctuary like [the] heights, like [the] earth that he established forever.

Modern King James verseion

And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.

NET Bible

He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.

New Heart English Bible

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

The Emphasized Bible

And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.

Webster

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

World English Bible

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Youngs Literal Translation

And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

References

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

68 but chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. 70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.


Cross References

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor out of the dust, he lifts up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with rulers, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are LORD's, and he has set the world upon them.

1 Kings 6:1-38

And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to bui

1 Kings 9:8

And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

1 Chronicles 29:1

And David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the palace is not for man, but for LORD God.

1 Chronicles 29:19

And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace [for thee], for which I have made provision.

2 Chronicles 2:9

even to prepare for me timber in abundance. For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 3:4

And the porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty. And he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

Job 26:7

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.

Psalm 102:25

Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Psalm 104:5

who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever.

Psalm 119:90-91

Thy faithfulness is to all generations. Thou have established the earth, and it abides.

Isaiah 48:13

Yea, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner. But my salvation shal

Colossians 1:16-17

Because in him all things were created, things in the heavens and things upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or lordships or principal offices or positions of authority, all things have been created

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

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