2 Chronicles 6:18

Solomon's Prayer To Dedicate The Temple

¹⁷ Therefore, Jehovah, God of Israel, may the promise you made to David, your servant, come true. ¹⁸ “But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, O Jehovah my God, please pay attention to my prayer for mercy. Listen to my cry for help as I pray to you.

Heaven Above

Heaven of Heavens

Highest Heavens

On Earth

2 Chronicles 2:6

No one can really build a Temple for God. This is because even all the vastness of heaven cannot contain him. How then can I build a Temple that would be anything more than a place to burn incense to God?

Isaiah 66:1

This is what Jehovah says: Heaven is my throne. Earth is my footstool. Where can you people build a house or resting place for me?

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like Jehovah our God? He is seated on his high throne.

Exodus 29:45-46

I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God.

1 Kings 8:27

Can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even heaven or the heaven of heavens is large enough to hold you. How can this Temple I have built be large enough?

2 Chronicles 32:15

Do not be fooled by Hezekiah! No god of any nation has been able to stand up to Assyria. Believe me, your God cannot keep you safe!'

Job 4:19

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust? Those houses can be crushed quicker than a moth!

Job 9:14

How then can I answer God and choose my words in order to reason with him?

Job 25:4-6

How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 68:18

You went to the highest place. You took prisoners captive. You have received gifts in the form of people, even from among rebellious people, so that Jehovah God may live there [with them].

Psalm 139:7-10

Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?

Isaiah 57:15

The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'

Jeremiah 23:24

Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him? asks Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? Declares Jehovah.

Matthew 7:11

Even though you are a sinner, you know how to give good gifts to your children. Think how much more your Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him!

Acts 7:48-49

The most High does not dwell in houses made with hands as the prophet says,

Acts 17:24

The God that made the world and all things in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He does not live in temples made with hands.

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know; or whether out of the body, I do not know; God knows), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.