Acts 7:47
But Solomon built him a house.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But Solomon built him an house.
In Context
46who found favor in the sight of God. And he asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
48However the Most High does not dwell in man-made temples, just as the prophet says,
Cross References
1 Kings 5:1And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, for Hiram was ever a devotee of David.
1 Kings 7:13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
1 Chronicles 17:1And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of LORD [dwells] under curtains.
2 Chronicles 3:1Then Solomon began to build the house of LORD at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, where [LORD] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:43-51
Stephen's Address. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses,… Read the whole commentary →