He said, "The LORD your God has been with you and given you peace on all sides. He let me conquer all the people who used to live in this land, and they are now subject to you and to the LORD.

King David was settled in his palace, and the LORD kept him safe from all his enemies.

(SEE 7:10)

Now I have built a majestic temple for you, a place for you to live in forever."

"But can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?

Sing praise to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell every nation what he has done!

Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scorn on the mountain on which God chose to live? The LORD will live there forever!

He goes up to the heights, taking many captives with him; he receives gifts from rebellious people. The LORD God will live there.

The LORD has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:

"This is where I will live forever; this is where I want to rule.

Praise the LORD in Zion, in Jerusalem, his home. Praise the LORD!

Here I am with the children the LORD has given me. The LORD Almighty, whose throne is on Mount Zion, has sent us as living messages to the people of Israel.

(SEE 3:20)

I will return to Jerusalem, my holy city, and live there. It will be known as the faithful city, and the hill of the LORD Almighty will be called the sacred hill.

How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, "I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity,