2 Chronicles 6:18

Overview - 2 Chronicles 6
Solomon, having blessed the people, blesses God.
12 Solomon's prayer in the consecration of the temple, upon the brasen scaffold, etc.
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2 Chronicles 6:18  (King James Version)
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
 


But will
Exodus 29:45 Exodus 29:46 ; 1 Kings 8:27 ; Psalms 68:18 ; Psalms 113:5 Psalms 113:6 Isaiah 57:15 ; 66:1
Acts 7:48 Acts 7:49 ; 17:24

heaven
{Hashshamayim ooshemey hashshamayim} "the heavens and the heavens of heavens;" which words seem to imply that there are systems and systems of systems, each possessing its sun, its primary and secondary planets; all extending beyond each other in unlimited space, in the same regular and graduated order which we find to prevail in our solar system; which, probably, in its thousands of millions of miles in diameter, is, to some others, no more than the area of the lunar orbit to that of Georgium Sidus.
2:6 Psalms 139:7-10 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; 2 Corinthians 12:2

how much
32:15 Job 4:19 ; 9:14 25:4-6 Matthew 7:11