Acts 7:44-50

44 "Our fathers had ¹the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it ²according to the pattern which he had seen.

45 "And having received it in their turn, our fathers ³brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before * our fathers, until the time of David.

46 "⁴David found favor in God's sight, and ⁵asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47 "But it was ⁶Solomon who built a house for Him.

48 "However, ⁷the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:

49 '⁸HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL OF MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says the Lord, 'OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REPOSE?

50 '⁹WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:8, 9; Exodus 38:21
• 2. Exodus 25:40
• 3. Deuteronomy 32:49; Joshua 3:14f; Joshua 18:1; Joshua 23:9; Joshua 24:18; Psalms 44:2
• 4. 2 Samuel 7:8f; Psalms 132:1-5; Acts 13:22
• 5. 2 Samuel 7:1-16; 1 Chronicles 17:1-14
• 6. 1 Kings 6:1-38; 1 Kings 8:20; 2 Chronicles 3:1-17
• 7. Luke 1:32
• 8. Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:34
• 9. Isaiah 66:2

Footnotes

• [a]. Gr "Jesus"
• [b]. Or "Gentiles"
• [c]. The earliest mss read "house" instead of "God;" the Septuagint reads "God"