Indeed, at the dedication of the temple, Solomon has a definitive word about the subject. He prayed in the following manner (not one, but several times, seemingly to emphasize the fact):

Hear the petition of Your servant, and Your people Israel when they pray toward this place [the temple] and May You hear in You dwelling place in heaven place in heaven.

One was to pray toward the temple, which bore God’s Name, but he would be heard in heaven—not in the temple. God’s dwelling was heaven (what is referred to elsewhere as the third heaven)—not the temple.

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