Acts 7:38-48

38 This is the one ¹who was in the congregation in the wilderness with ²the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. ³He received ⁴living ⁵oracles to give to us.

39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and ⁶in their hearts they turned to Egypt,

40 saying to Aaron, ⁷‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him. ’

41 And ⁸they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and ⁹were rejoicing in ¹⁰the works of their hands.

42 But ¹¹God turned away and ¹²gave them over to worship ¹³the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ¹⁴“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, ¹⁵during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

43 You took up the tent of ¹⁶Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon. ’

44 “Our fathers had ¹⁷the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses ¹⁸directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.

45 Our fathers in turn ¹⁹brought it in with Joshua when they ²⁰dispossessed the nations ²¹that God drove out before our fathers. So it was ²²until the days of David,

46 ²³who found favor in the sight of God and ²⁴asked to find a dwelling place for ²⁵the God of Jacob. ^[a]

47 But it was ²⁶Solomon who built a house for him.

48 ²⁷Yet the Most High does not dwell ²⁸in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

Cross References

• 1. 7:38 Ex. 19:3, 17, 18
• 2. 7:38 [ver. 53; Isa. 63:9]
• 3. 7:38 Deut. 5:27, 31; 33:4; See John 1:17
• 4. 7:38 [Deut. 32:47]
• 5. 7:38 Rom. 3:2; Heb. 5:12; 1 Pet. 4:11
• 6. 7:39 Ex. 16:3; Num. 11:4, 5; 14:3, 4; Ezek. 20:8, 24
• 7. 7:40 Cited from Ex. 32:1, 23
• 8. 7:41 Ex. 32:4-6, 35; Deut. 9:16; Ps. 106:19
• 9. 7:41 Amos 6:13
• 10. 7:41 Isa. 2:8; Jer. 1:16; 25:6, 7
• 11. 7:42 [Josh. 24:20; Isa. 63:10]
• 12. 7:42 Ps. 81:12; Ezek. 20:39; Rom. 1:28
• 13. 7:42 Deut. 4:19; 2 Kgs. 17:16; 21:3; 23:5; Jer. 19:13; Zeph. 1:5
• 14. 7:42 Cited from Amos 5:25-27
• 15. 7:42 See ver. 36
• 16. 7:43 See 1 Kgs. 11:7
• 17. 7:44 Rev. 15:5; See Ex. 38:21
• 18. 7:44 See Ex. 25:40
• 19. 7:45 Josh. 3:14-17
• 20. 7:45 Num. 32:5; Deut. 32:49
• 21. 7:45 ch. 13:19; Josh. 3:10; 23:9; 24:18; 2 Chr. 20:7
• 22. 7:45 2 Sam. 7:1
• 23. 7:46 ch. 13:22; 1 Sam. 16:1; Ps. 89:19
• 24. 7:46 1 Kgs. 8:17; 1 Chr. 22:7; Ps. 132:5
• 25. 7:46 [Gen. 49:24; Isa. 49:26]
• 26. 7:47 2 Sam. 7:13; 1 Kgs. 6:1, 2; 8:20; 2 Chr. 3:1
• 27. 7:48 [1 Kgs. 8:27; 2 Chr. 2:6]
• 28. 7:48 ch. 17:24

Footnotes

• [a] 7:46 Some manuscripts 'for the house of Jacob'