Acts 7:46

David pleased God, and he asked God to let him build a house where he and all of our Israeli people could worship God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

In Context

45Later on, other ancestors of ours carried that tent with them when Joshua led them into this land. That was during the time that they took this land for themselves, when God forced the people who previously lived here to leave. So the Israelis were able to possess this land. The tent remained in this land and was still here when King David ruled.

47But instead, God let David’s son Solomon build a house where people could worship God.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:28Samuel said to him, “ You tore my robe! And today Yahweh has torn away from you the kingdom of Israel! He will appoint someone else to be king, someone who is a better man than you are.

1 Samuel 16:11Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Do you have any other sons?” Jesse replied, “My youngest son is not here; he is out in the fields taking care of the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send someone to bring him here! We will not sit down to eat until he gets here.”

2 Samuel 7:1After King David began to live in his palace, Yahweh protected him from all his enemies.

2 Samuel 7:18Then David went into the Sacred Tent and sat in the presence of Yahweh, and prayed this: “Yahweh, my God, I am not worthy [RHQ] for you to have done all these things for me, and my family is not worthy, either.

1 Chronicles 17:1After David began to live in his palace, he said to the prophet Nathan, “ It does not seem right that I am here living in a palace made of cedar wood, but Yahweh’s Sacred Chest is kept inside a tent!”

1 Chronicles 28:2David stood up and said, “My fellow Israelis, listen to me. I wanted [IDM] to build a temple to be a place where we would put the Sacred Chest of Yahweh, where it would stay permanently. And I made plans to build it.

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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