Reference

2 Chronicles 2:4

Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2

And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

3

And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.

4

Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

5

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

6

But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

Why This Verse Was Tagged

Sabbath as Perpetual
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Earthly Sanctuary System
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Counter-Arguments

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Sabbath as Perpetual

While the verse mentions the Sabbath as part of a perpetual ordinance, the "ordinance for ever" refers to the entire set of practices for the house, not exclusively to the Sabbath itself.

Earthly Sanctuary System

The verse describes the *building* of a house and the *purpose* of its rituals, but it does not explicitly detail the structure of the sanctuary system itself, nor does it mention the Levitical priesthood or blood sacrifice directly.