2 Chronicles 6:18

Solomon's Prayer To Dedicate The Temple

¹⁷ "Now therefore, LORD God of Israel, may your promise that you made to your servant David be fulfilled" ¹⁸ and yet, will God truly reside on earth with human beings? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built! ¹⁹ Pay attention to the prayer of your servant and to his request, LORD my God, and listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying in your presence.

Heaven Above

Heaven of Heavens

Highest Heavens

On Earth

2 Chronicles 2:6

But who can build a temple for him, since neither heaven nor the highest of the heavens can contain him? So who am I, that I should build a temple to him, except to burn incense in his presence?

Isaiah 66:1

This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you would build for me, and where will my resting place be?

Psalm 113:5-6

Who is like the LORD our God, enthroned on high,

Exodus 29:45-46

I'll live among the Israelis, and I'll be their God.

1 Kings 8:27

and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

2 Chronicles 32:15

Now therefore, don't let Hezekiah lie to you or mislead you like this. Don't believe him, because no god of any nation has been able to deliver his people from my control or from the control of my predecessors. So how much less will your God deliver you from me?'"

Job 4:19

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

Job 9:14

So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?

Job 25:4-6

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

Psalm 68:18

You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.

Psalm 139:7-10

Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence?

Isaiah 57:15

"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Jeremiah 23:24

If a person hides himself in secret places, will I not see him?" declares the LORD. "I fill the heavens and the earth, do I not?" declares the LORD.

Matthew 7:11

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!

Acts 7:48-49

However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn't live in shrines made by human hands,

2 Corinthians 12:2

I know a man who belongs to the Messiah. Fourteen years ago whether in his body or outside of his body, I do not know, but God knows that man was snatched away to the third heaven.