Jeremiah 23:24
Jeremiah 23:2424“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
JWs cite as evidence of Jehovah's omniscience and inescapable awareness — no false prophet, no idolater, no spiritually unfaithful Israelite can hide from him. Within the Watchtower framework the verse is treated as confirmation of Jehovah's universal knowledge, with less attention to the second clause ("Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?") as a positive declaration of divine omnipresence and the asymmetry that creates with every other spiritual being.
declares Jehovah's omnipresence as an exclusive divine attribute — "Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" Pair this verse with ("Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?") and ("heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you"). The cumulative Old Testament picture: Yahweh's presence is qualitatively unlike any creature's — he fills heaven and earth, he cannot be evaded, he is not contained. Now contrast Satan: in he reports his itinerary ("from roving about on the earth and from walking about in it"); in he prowls; in he stands at Joshua's right hand to accuse him; in he is bound. All locomotion verbs — none of them predicates of an omnipresent being. On the doorstep, this verse names what JW speech often quietly grants to Satan but reserves for Jehovah: filling heaven and earth. Restoring Satan to creaturely scale and Yahweh to exclusive omnipresence corrects an implicit dualism that treats Satan as a near-equal contestant.