Acts 7:47
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But Solomon built him an house.
In Context
46who found grace before God and who asked that he might obtain a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
48Yet the Most High does not live in houses built by hands, just as he said through the prophet:
Cross References
1 Kings 5:1Hiram, the king of Tyre, also sent his servants to Solomon. For he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father. Now Hiram had been a friend to David the entire time.
1 Kings 7:13And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram of Tyre,
1 Chronicles 17:1Now when David was living in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan: “Behold, I live in a house of cedar. But the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under tent skins.”
2 Chronicles 3:1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord, in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, as it had been shown to David his father, at the place which David had prepared on 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 →