Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: what is this house that you will build to me? and what is this place of my rest?

the heaven

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

1 Chronicles 28:2 And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.

2 Chronicles 6:18 Is it credible then that God should dwell with men on the earth? If heaven and the heavens of heavens do not contain thee, how much less this house, which I have built?

Psalm 11:4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 99:9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalm 132:7 We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where his feet stood.

Matthew 5:34,35 But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is the throne of God: . . .

Matthew 23:21,22 And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth in it. . . .

Acts 17:24 God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

where is the house

2 Samuel 7:5-7 Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in? . . .

Jeremiah 7:4-11 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. . . .

Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 24:2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.

John 4:20,21 Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. . . .

Acts 7:48-50 Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith: . . .