Acts 7:42
But God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the Prophets, “Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Job 31:26If I have beheld the sun in his splendor, Or the moon advancing in brightness,
Psalms 95:10Forty years was I offended with that generation: And I said, 'They are a people of a perverse heart, And who have no regard to my ways.'
Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit; Then did he change himself into their enemy; He himself fought against them.
Jeremiah 19:13And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be unclean, like the place of Tophet, All the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, And poured out drink-offerings to strange gods.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:31-42
Stephen's Address. 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou… Read the whole commentary →