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!
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
But will God in very deed dwell with men - "But who could have imagined, who could have thought it credible, that God should place his majesty among men dwelling upon earth? Behold, the highest…
Solomon had, in the foregoing verses, signed and sealed, as it were, the deed of dedication, by which the temple was appropriated to the honour and service of God. Now here he prays the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
dwell with men The Peshitta (a Jewish work) limits the sense and translates, cause his Shekinah to dwell with(al. rest upon) his people Israel. The words, with men, are absent from the Heb. text of 1…
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