Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has 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 He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that He established forever.
70 He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;


Cross References

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile.
He seats them with noblemen
and gives them a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
He has set the world on them.

1 Kings 6:1-38

Solomon began to build the temple for the Lord in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv.

1 Kings 9:8

Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock. They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?

1 Chronicles 29:1

Then King David said to all the assembly, “My son Solomon—God has chosen him alone—is young and inexperienced. The task is great because the temple will not be for man but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Give my son Solomon a whole heart to keep and to carry out all Your commands, Your decrees, and Your statutes, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.

2 Chronicles 2:9

to prepare logs for me in abundance because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

2 Chronicles 3:4

The portico, which was across the front extending across the width of the temple, was 30 feet wide; its height was 30 feet; he overlaid its inner surface with pure gold.

Job 26:7

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

Psalm 102:25

Long ago You established the earth,
and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Psalm 104:5

He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.

Psalm 119:90-91

Your faithfulness is for all generations;
You established the earth, and it stands firm.

Isaiah 48:13

My own hand founded the earth,
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summoned them,
they stood up together.

Isaiah 51:6

Look up to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and its inhabitants will die like gnats.
But My salvation will last forever,
and My righteousness will never be shattered.

Colossians 1:16-17

For everything was created by Him,
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through Him and for Him.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

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