2 Chronicles 6:18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁸“But ^(A)will God really dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, ^(B)heaven and the ^[a]highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

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2 Chronicles 6:18 Lit heaven of heavens

2 Chronicles 6:18 in all English translations

Isaiah 66:1-2

New American Standard Bible

Heaven Is God’s Throne

66 This is what the Lord says:

“^(A)Heaven is My throne and the earth is the footstool for My feet.
Where then is a ^(B)house you could build for Me?
And where is a place that ^[a]I may rest?
²For ^(C)My hand made all these things,
So all these things came into being,” declares the Lord.
“But I will look to this one,
At one who is humble and ^(D)contrite in spirit, and who ^(E)trembles at My word.

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Isaiah 66:1 Lit is My resting place?

Matthew 12:41-42

New American Standard Bible

⁴¹^(A)The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because ^(B)they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something ^(C)greater than Jonah is here. ⁴²^(D)The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something ^(E)greater than Solomon is here.