2 Chronicles 2:6
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But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
Read 2 Chronicles 2:6 Using Other Translations
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?
But who can really build him a worthy home? Not even the highest heavens can contain him! So who am I to consider building a Temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices to him?
What does 2 Chronicles 2:6 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him an house
Suitable to the greatness of his majesty, especially as he dwells
not in temples made with hands:
seeing the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain
him?
see ( 1 Kings
8:27 ) ,
who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only
to burn
sacrifice before him?
since God was an immense and infinite Being, be would have Hiram
to understand that he had no thought of building an house, in
which he could be circumscribed and contained, only a place in
which he might be worshipped, and sacrifices offered to him.
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