1 Kings 8:27

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What does 1 Kings 8:27 mean?

1 Kings 8:27 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for 1 Kings 8:27

• Isaiah 66:1

  Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

• Jeremiah 23:24

  Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

• 2 Chronicles 2:6

  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?

• 2 Chronicles 6:18

  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!

• Acts 7:48-49

  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

• Psalms 139:7-16

  Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. …

• Deuteronomy 10:14

  Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

• John 1:14

  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

• Psalms 113:4

  The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

• Acts 17:24

  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

• 1 John 3:1

  Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

• 2 Corinthians 12:2

  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

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Context

• 1 Kings 8:26

  And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

• 1 Kings 8:27

  But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?

• 1 Kings 8:28

  Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

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