2 Chronicles 6:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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! ”

• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Compare Kings (marginal references). Compare Kings (marginal references).

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  2 Chronicles 5:2 to 2 Chronicles 7:10 . The Dedication of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 8). The chief points of difference between the Chronicler's account and 1 Kings 8 are: ( a ) that in 2...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  men. Hebrew. 'adam (with Art.. mankind). App-14. behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. heaven... heaven... heavens. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for emphasis. how much l...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 397 CONDESCENSION OF GOD IN BECOMING INCARNATE 2 Chronicles 6:18 . Will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? IT is nothing but a want of reflection, that keeps us from bein...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 God in very deed dwell with...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But will God in very deed dwell with men— That God may dwell in very deed with men upon the earth: Houbigant; who supposes, that Solomon in these words refers to God's promise to David, and that...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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! How much less this house whic...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Solomon's Prayer The first 39 vv. of this chapter repeat 1 Kings 8:12-50 , the conclusion of the prayer, as given in 1 Kings 8:51-61 , being omitted and three additional vv. being substituted....

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But will God in very deed. — Or, what? will God, &c. — The LXX. imitates the Hebrew ὅτι εἰ�; Vuig., “ergone credibile est ut habitet Deus?” With men. — Not in Kings. Syriac, “with his peop...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the presence of the manifestation of glory the king pronounced a blessing on the people which merged into, or took the form of, a blessing offered to God, as he recounted the way of the divine gui...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I refer the Reader to the observations made on this prayer already in the Commentary on the 1 Kings 8:1 . And only by way of enforcing what was there said, I would beseech the Reader, as he goeth ov...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  2 Chronicles 5:1 .

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SOLOMON SPEAKS TO GOD AND TO THE PEOPLE (vv.1-11) Solomon began his inauguration address by first speaking to the Lord, reminding Him that He had said He would dwell in the dark cloud and that h...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        12 And he stood before the altar of the L ORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:   13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long,...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Close parallelism of this chapter and 1 Kings 8:12-50 ; 2 Chronicles 6:13 only important variation. 2 Chronicles 6:1 (cf. Leviticus 16:1 ), darkness , not cloud, but of hol...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  2 Chronicles 6:41 . Thy saints. וחסידיךְ vakesidéka, thy merciful ones. Our Saviour describes the saints as showing mercy. Matthew 5:7 . The Lord will show mercy to them again, and cause them t...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? The condescending God I. Let me call your attention to the fact of the Divine greatness; because it is only in the view of that that we ca...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The first thirty-nine verses of this chapter (less the thirteenth) correspond very closely with the thirty-eight verses of the parallel that run 1 Kings 8:12-11 . For once also the t...

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Solomon's Dedicatory Prayer

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• 2 Chronicles 6:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:27 ; 2 Chronicles 2:6 ; 2 Chronicles 32:15 ; 2 Corinthians 12:2 ; Acts 17:24 ; Acts 7:48 ; Acts 7:49 ; Exodus 29:45 ; Exodus 29:46 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 66:1 ; Jeremiah 23:24...

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