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5Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
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In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
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?
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. …
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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…
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