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Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.
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Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
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who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
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But Solomon built him a house.
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Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in [houses] made with hands; as saith the prophet,
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The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of My rest?
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Did not my hand make all these things?
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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
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ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
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Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.