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!_ How much less this house which I have built!...

Verse 2 Chronicles 6:18. _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 heavens, the middle heavens, and the lowest heavens, cannot bear the glory of thy majesty, (for thou art the God who sustainest all the heavens, and the earth, and the deep, and all that is in them,) nor can this house which I have built contain Thee." - _Targum_....

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

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 two places are in closer accord in the original than might be augured from our English Version. Our thirteenth verse is not found in the parallel, and this fact, with the phenomenon of its presence here, will be considered under the verse when we reach it. The chapter consists of: _first, _Solomon's remarks addressed to his people (1 Kings 8:1); and _secondly_, the prayer and intercession he offers to God (1 Kings 8:14-11)....

2 Chronicles 5:1....

CHAPTER 6 SOLOMON'S ADDRESS AND DEDICATORY PRAYER _ 1. Solomon's address to the congregation (2 Chronicles 6:1)_ 2. Solomon's dedicatory prayer (2 Chronicles 6:12) The report of Solomon's address is the same as recorded in 1 Kings 8:12. The opening statement of this chapter has been well characterized as a pregnant expression of the king's realization of the mystery of the Being of Jehovah, the all-creative God, as well as the condescension displayed in His self-limitation to dwell amongst men. (See Exodus 19:9; Exod

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 Chronicles 5:4 the Levites are the bearers of the Ark (_cf._ 1 Chronicles 15:2; 1 Chronicles 15:26 f.) instead of the priests as in 1 Kings 8:3; (_b_) that in...

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 LESS. Compare Acts 7:48....

_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 Kings, but appears in LXX. (A and B)....

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 being filled with incessant wonder and astonishment. The things which God has done for us in the works of creation and providence, if duly searched out, would furnish abundant matter for our profoundest adoration. But the provision which he has made for our redemption exceeds all the bounds of credibility. Even those manifestations of his mercy whereby he shadowed forth the mystery of his incarnation, were so stupendous, that Solomon, who beheld them, could scarcely believe his own eyes. He had erected a temple which was to be a type of Christ’s human body. He had just seen God coming down in a cloud to take possession of that temple, and filling it with his glory. He was in th