Discovery Box1 Kings 8:27 
Context8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
1 Kings 18:32
Context18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 2 Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 3 of seed.
1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.
2 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the
3 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.
