Acts 7:47

But it was Solomon who built a house for God.

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But Solomon built him an house.

In Context

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

48Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says –

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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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