But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
⛓ Read 1 Kings 8 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The Most High doesn't dwell in temples made with hands' echoes Solomon's own dedicatory confession, 'the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house?'
High confidenceSolomon's 'heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house I have built' directly grounds 'does not dwell in temples made with hands.' Strong thematic coherence at the dedication of the very institution Paul relativizes.
High confidence