2 Tawarikh 2:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi siapa yang mampu mendirikan suatu rumah bagi Dia, sedangkan langit, bahkan langit yang mengatasi segala langitpun tidak dapat memuat Dia? Dan siapakah aku ini, sehingga aku hendak mendirikan suatu rumah bagi Dia, kecuali sebagai tempat untuk membakar korban di hadapan-Nya?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi siapa yang mampu mendirikan suatu rumah bagi Dia, sedangkan langit, bahkan langit yang mengatasi segala langitpun tidak dapat memuat Dia? Dan siapakah aku ini, sehingga aku hendak mendirikan suatu rumah bagi Dia, kecuali sebagai tempat untuk membakar korban di hadapan-Nya?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi siapa gerangan cakap membuat sebuah rumah yang patut bagi-Nya, sedang langit, bahkan, langit yang di atas segala langitpun tiada dapat meliputi Dia? dan siapa gerangan beta ini, maka beta hendak membuat bagi-Nya sebuah rumah, jikalau tiada akan membakar dupa jua di hadapan hadirat-Nya?

Contextual Overview

¹ And Solomon determined to buylde an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdome. ² And Solomon tolde out threescore and ten thousande men to beare burthens, and fourescore thousand men to hewe stones in the mountayne, and three thousand and sixe hundred to ouersee them. ³ And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying: As thou diddest deale with Dauid my father, and diddest send him Cedar wood to buyld him an house to dwell in [euen so deale with me:] ⁴ Behold I buylde an house for the name of the Lorde my God, to offer vnto him holy thinges, & to burne sweete incense, and to set shewe bread before him continually, to offer burnt sacrifices of the morning and euening on the Sabbath dayes, in the firste day of euery newe moone, and in the solempne feastes of the Lorde our God: for it is an ordinaunce to be continually kept of Israel. ⁵ And the house which I buylde shalbe great: for great is our God aboue all gods. ⁶ But who is able to buylde him an house? when that heauen and heauen aboue all heauens is not able to receaue him, what am I then that should buyld him an house? nay, but euen to burne sacrifice before him [shall this buylding be.] ⁷ Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man, that can worke in golde and siluer, in brasse and iron, in purple, crymosin, yelowe silke, & that can skyll to graue with the cunning men that are with me in Iuda and Hierusalem, whom Dauid my father dyd prepare. ⁸ Sende me also Cedar trees, pine trees, and algume trees, out of Libanon: For I wot that thy seruauntes can skill to hewe timber in Libanon: and behold my men shalbe with thyne, ⁹ That they may prepare me timber enough: For the house whiche I am determined to buylde, shalbe wonderfull great. ¹⁰ And behold, for the vse of thy seruauntes the cutters and hewers of timber, I haue geuen twentie thousande quarters of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand quarters of barlye, and twentie thousande battes of wine, and twentie thousande battes of oyle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But who: 2 Chronicles 6:18, 1 Kings 8:27, Isaiah 66:1, Acts 7:48, Acts 7:49

is able: Heb. hath returned, or obtained strength

who am I then: 2 Chronicles 1:10, Exodus 3:11, 2 Samuel 7:18, 1 Chronicles 29:14, 2 Corinthians 2:16, Ephesians 3:8

save only: Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:14, Deuteronomy 12:26

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:5 - dwelt Ezra 6:3 - the place Ezra 7:15 - whose habitation Psalms 68:29 - Because Psalms 76:1 - his Psalms 132:5 - an habitation Jeremiah 17:12 - General Jeremiah 23:24 - Do Daniel 4:30 - that Acts 17:24 - dwelleth Revelation 21:22 - I saw

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But who is able to build him an house,.... Suitable to the greatness of his majesty, especially as he dwells not in temples made with hands:

seeing the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain him? see 1 Kings 8:27,

who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? since God was an immense and infinite Being, be would have Hiram to understand that he had no thought of building an house, in which he could be circumscribed and contained, only a place in which he might be worshipped, and sacrifices offered to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Save only to burn sacrifice before him - Solomon seems to mean that to build the temple can only be justified on the human - not on the divine - side. “God dwelleth not in temples made with hands;” He cannot be confined to them; He does in no sort need them. The sole reason for building a temple lies in the needs of man: his worship must he local; the sacrifices commanded in the Law had of necessity to be offered somewhere.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 2:6. Seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens — "For the lower heavens, the middle heavens, and the upper heavens cannot contain him, seeing he sustains all things by the arm of his power. Heaven is the throne of his glory, the earth his footstool; the deep, and the whole world, are sustained by the spirit of his WORD, [ברוח מימריה beruach meymereih.] Who am I, then, that I should build him a house?" - Targum.

Save only to burn sacrifice — It is not under the hope that the house shall be able to contain him, but merely for the purpose of burning incense to him, and offering him sacrifice, that I have erected it.