Contradictions and Paradoxes in 2 Chronicles 7:16

Check out Contradictions Catalog of 2 Chronicles 7:16 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts 2 Chronicles 7:16. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of 2 Chronicles, God is saying that He has picked a special place where people can come to feel close to Him and that He will always watch over this place with love. This means that God is always with the people who come to this special house.

2 Chronicles 7:16: For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 7:14

This verse describes God declaring that He will forsake the house which bears His name, contradicting the promise of perpetual presence in 2 Chronicles 7:16.

Jeremiah 7:14: Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

Contradiction with Matthew 23:38

Jesus states that the house (temple) is left desolate, opposing the idea of divine favor and attention stated in 2 Chronicles 7:16.

Matthew 23:38: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Contradiction with Acts 7:48

This verse notes that the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, contradicting the notion of God choosing and sanctifying a specific temple as His dwelling in 2 Chronicles 7:16.

Acts 7:48: Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Contradiction with Isaiah 66:1

God declares that heaven is His throne and the earth His footstool, suggesting that He does not need a specific physical building to dwell in, contradicting the specific designation of the temple in 2 Chronicles 7:16.

Isaiah 66:1: Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

Contradiction with 1 Kings 9:6-7

These verses indicate conditions and potential forsaking of the temple, which contradicts the unconditional establishment of the temple mentioned in 2 Chronicles 7:16.

1 Kings 9:6-7: [But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
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