Acts 7:45

This tent, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.

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In The King James Version

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

In Context

44Our ancestors had the tent where they worshiped God in the desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.

46David found favor with God, and prayed that he might provide the God of Jacob with a place to reside.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:6To the priests he said, “Lift the ark of the covenant and go in front of the people.” So they lifted the ark of the covenant and went in front of the people.

Joshua 18:1Then the whole community of the Israelites, having subdued the country, met at Shilo and set up the Tent of Meeting there.

Joshua 24:18The Lord drove out all the nations before us, all the Amorites who lived in the land. So we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”

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 →

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