2 Chronicles 2:5
New International Version
“The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.

New Living Translation
“This must be a magnificent Temple because our God is greater than all other gods.

English Standard Version
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

Berean Standard Bible
The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

King James Bible
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

New King James Version
And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

New American Standard Bible
The house which I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than all the gods.

NASB 1995
“The house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.

NASB 1977
“And the house which I am about to build will be great; for greater is our God than all the gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the house which I am about to build will be great, for greater is our God than all the gods.

Amplified Bible
The house I am going to build will be great, for our God is greater than all the gods.

Christian Standard Bible
The temple that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than any of the gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The temple that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than any of the gods.

American Standard Version
And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the house that I build is very great, because LORD JEHOVAH our God is greater than all Kings.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the house which I am building is to be great: for the Lord our God is great beyond all gods.

Contemporary English Version
This will be a great temple, because our God is greater than all other gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the house which I desire to build, is great: for our God is great above all gods.

English Revised Version
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The temple I am building will be great because our God is greater than all other gods.

Good News Translation
I intend to build a great temple, because our God is greater than any other god.

International Standard Version
"The Temple that I'm building will be great, because the greatness of our God surpasses that of all gods.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.

Literal Standard Version
And the house that I am building [is] great, for our God [is] greater than all gods;

Majority Standard Bible
The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

New American Bible
And the house I am going to build must be great, for our God is greater than all other gods.

NET Bible
I will build a great temple, for our God is greater than all gods.

New Revised Standard Version
The house that I am about to build will be great, for our God is greater than other gods.

New Heart English Bible
"The house which I build is great; for our God is great above all gods.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

World English Bible
“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

Young's Literal Translation
And the house that I am building is great, for greater is our God than all gods;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Preparations for the Temple
4Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever. 5The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 6But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?…

Cross References
Exodus 15:11
Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You--majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance."

1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.


Treasury of Scripture

And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

great

2 Chronicles 2:9
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

1 Kings 9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

1 Chronicles 29:1
Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

great is our God

Exodus 15:11
Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 86:8,9
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works…

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1. Solomon's laborers for the building of the temple
3. His ambassage to Huram for workmen and provisions
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(5) And the house which I build is great.--1Chronicles 29:1.

Great is our God above all gods.--Exodus 18

11; Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 77:13; Psalm 95:3. According to modern notions of magnitude, the Temple of Solomon was a small building. (See on 1Kings 6:2-3.) Shelley's . . .

Verses 5, 6. - The contents of these verses beg some special observation, in the first place, as having been judged by the writer of Chronicles matter desirable to be retained and put in his work. To find a place for this subject amid his careful selection, and rejection in many cases, of the matter at his command, is certainly a decision in harmony with his general design in this work. Then, again, they may be remarked on as spoken to another king, who, whether it were to be expected or no, was, it is plain, a sympathizing hearer of the piety and religious resolution of Solomon (ver. 12). This is one of the touches of history that does not diminish our regret that we do not know more of Hiram. He was no "proselyte," but he had the sympathy of a convert to the religion of the Jew. Perhaps the simplest and most natural explanation may just be the truest, that Hiram for some long time had seen "the rising" kingdom, and alike in David and Solomon in turn, "the coming" men. He had been more calmly and deliberately impressed than the Queen of Sheba afterwards, but not less effectually and operatively impressed. And once more the passage is noteworthy for the utterances of Solomon in themselves. As parenthetically testifying to a powerful man, who could be a powerful helper of Solomon's enterprise, his outburst of explanation, and of ardent religious purpose, and of humble godly awe, is natural. But that he should call the temple he purposed to build "so great," as we cannot put it down either to intentional exaggeration or to sober historic fact, must the rather be honestly set down to such considerations as these, viz. that in point of fact, neither David nor Solomon were "travelled men," as Joseph and Moses, for instance. Their measures of greatness were largely dependent upon the existing material and furnishing of their own little country. And further, Solomon speaks of the temple as great very probably from the point of view of its simple religious uses (note end of ver. 6) as the place of sacrifice in especial rather than as a place, for instance, of vast congregations and vast processions. Then, too, as compared with the tabernacle, it would loom "great," whether for size or for its enduring material. Meantime, though Solomon does indeed use the words (ver. 5)," The house.., is great," yet, throwing on the words the light of the remaining clause of the verse, and of David's words in 1 Chronicles 29:1, it is not very certain that the main thing present to his mind was not the size, but rather the character of the house, and the solemn character of the enterprise itself (1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18). Who am I... save only to burn sacrifice before him? The drift of Solomon's thought is plain - that nothing would justify mortal man, if he purported to build really a palace of residence for him whom the heaven of heavens could not contain, but that he is justified all the more in "not giving sleep to his eyes, nor slumber to his eyelids, until he had found out a place" (Psalm 132:4, 5) where man might acceptably, in God's appointed way, draw near to him. If "earth draw near to heaven," it may be confidently depended on that heaven will not be slow to bend down its glory, majesty, grace, to earth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The house
וְהַבַּ֛יִת (wə·hab·ba·yiṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

that
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am building
בוֹנֶ֖ה (ḇō·w·neh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

will be great,
גָּד֑וֹל (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

our God
אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

is greater
גָד֥וֹל (ḡā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

than all
מִכָּל־ (mik·kāl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

gods.
הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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