1 Kings 8:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Reflecting upon God's performance of his promise concerning the building of the temple, he breaks forth into admiration, Is it possible that the great, and high, and lofty God should stoop so low, as to take up his dwelling here amongst men? O astonishing condescension! The heaven; all this vast space of the visible heaven. And heaven of heavens; the third and highest, and therefore the largest heaven, called the heaven of heavens here, as also Deuteronomy 10:14 Psalms 148:4, for its eminency and comprehensiveness. Cannot contain thee; for thy essence teacheth far beyond them, being omnipresent. How much less this house that I have builded? this house therefore was not built as if it were proportionable to thy greatness, or could contain thee, but only that therein we might serve and glorify thee.