THEOSIS1 Chronicles 17:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Go, and speak to David my servant: Thus saith the Lord: Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.
לֵ֤ךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ֙ אֶל־דָּוִ֣יד עַבְדִּ֔י כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה לֹ֥א אַתָּ֛ה תִּבְנֶה־לִּ֥י הַבַּ֖יִת לָשָֽׁבֶת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Chr 28:2And 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.
- 1 Chr 28:3And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.
- Rom 11:33O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
- Rom 11:34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?
- 2 Sam 7:4But it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying:
- 2 Sam 7:5Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?
- Isa 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
- Isa 55:9For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.