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And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of the god Rephan, the figures which you made to worship; and I will remove you beyond Babylon.'
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"Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.
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Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God thrust out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,
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who found favor in the sight of God and asked leave to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
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But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
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Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says,
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'Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool. What house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
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Did not my hand make all these things?'