| Lucy Barton - 1831 - 188 pagina’s
...forth his hands to heaven, and prayed the Lord for a blessing on the workmanship of his hands, saying, "but will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold the...heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have builded!" Solomon then Sit up a prayer to the Lord God, that e would look upon this house... | |
| James Yonge - 1831 - 482 pagina’s
...present there, as well as in every other place throughout the universe. " But will God indeed dwell upon the earth ? behold the heaven and heaven of heavens...cannot contain thee, — how much less this house that I have builded ! Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1832 - 388 pagina’s
...between curtains." (2 Sam. 7. 2.) But will God, we may ask with the other of the inspired kings, " will God indeed dwell on the earth ? behold, the heaven,...cannot contain thee ; how much less this house that I have builded?" (1 Kings 8. 27.) By Him the world itself was formed, and the heavens above created.... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pagina’s
...(said Solomon) which thou spakcst unto thy servant David my father ; but will God indeed dwell on th< 1 1 1}1~1> ? @ 1 181 les* this house that I have builded. Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his... | |
| Graham Hancock - 1993 - 612 pagina’s
...I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, , a settled place for thee to abide in forever . . . But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the...cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?"5 According to the Scriptures, Solomon had later 'turned away his heart after other... | |
| David F. Wells - 1993 - 268 pagina’s
...Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the...cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord... | |
| Luco Johan van den Brom - 1993 - 340 pagina’s
...rather speculative at first sight, it does seem to do full justice to what can be read in IKings 8.27: 'Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded?'43 God could also be conceived as a being who 40 Bultmann, 'New Testament and Mythology'... | |
| Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pagina’s
...deep language of love and worship. The struggle to try to express the inexpressible is an ancient one: 'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the...cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?' (I Kings 8.27) There is a delightful congruity between some concluding remarks by... | |
| Avi Erlich - 2010 - 298 pagina’s
...who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart. . . . But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the...cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? %t have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord... | |
| Frederick Brotherton Meyer, F. B. Meyer - 1996 - 196 pagina’s
...of Solomon when he felt the utter inadequacy of his splendid temple as the abode of the Eternal God: "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the...cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?" (1 Kings 8:27). But this question has been forever settled by God Himself in the majestic... | |
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