The house I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
Traditional numbering: 2:5
In context
2Then Solomon sent this message to Huram king of Tyre: “As you dealt with my father David, sending him cedars so that he could build himself a house to live in — 3I am now building a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to be consecrated to him, for burning fragrant incense before him, for the rows of bread set out continually, and for the burnt offerings of morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons and at the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God. This is laid on Israel for all time. 4The house I am building is to be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 5Yet who has the strength to build him a house, when the heavens and the highest heavens cannot hold him? And who am I to build him a house, except as a place to burn offerings before him? 6So send me a man skilled in working gold, silver, bronze and iron, and purple, crimson and violet yarn, and trained in every kind of engraving, to work beside the craftsmen I have here with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
