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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?'
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"You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
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Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it."
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Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him.
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But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;