Acts 7:47

And Sh'lomo (Solomon) built for him a Beis. + 7:47 1Kgs 6:1-38

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But Solomon built him an house.

In Context

46And Dovid found Chen v'Chesed Hashem before G-d, and asked that he might find a mishkan for Elohei Ya'akov. + 7:46 2Sm 7:2,8-16; 1Kgs 8:17; Ps 132:1-5

48But HaElyon does not dwell in battim made by human hands, just as the Navi (prophet) says, + 7:48 1Kgs 8:27; 2Kgs 2:6

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Cross References

1 Kings 5:1And Sh'lomo reigned as Melech over kol hamamlechot (all the kingdoms) from the Nahar ([Euphrates] River) unto Eretz Pelishtim (Philistines), and unto the border of Mitzrayim: they brought minchah (tribute), and served Sh'lomo all the days of his life.

1 Kings 7:13And HaMelech Sh'lomo sent and brought back Chiram from Tzor.

1 Chronicles 17:1Now it came to pass, as Dovid sat in his bais, that Dovid said to Natan HaNavi, Hinei, I dwell in a bais ha'arazim (a palace of cedars) but the Aron Brit Hashem [dwelleth] under tent curtains.

2 Chronicles 3:1Then Sh'lomo began to build the Bais Hashem at Yerushalayim in Mt Moriyah, where Hashem appeared unto Dovid Avihu, in the makom (place) which Dovid had prepared in the goren (threshing floor) of Ornan the Yevusi.

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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