Acts 7:42

But God turned and gave them up to worship the stars in the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 1 'Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices 1 for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel? 1

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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?

In Context

41So they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced because of the work of their hands.

43You accepted the tabernacle of Molech 1 and the star of the god Rephan, 1 and the images that you made to worship them: 1 and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:3anyone who has gone and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, either the sun, the moon, or any of the host of heaven—nothing that I have commanded—

2 Kings 17:16They ignored all the commandments of Yahweh their God. They made cast metal figures of two calves to worship. They made an Asherah pole, and they worshiped all the stars of the heavens and Baal.

Job 31:26If I have seen the sun when it shone, 1 or the moon walking in its brightness, 1

Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation 1 and said, 'This is a people whose hearts wander astray; 1 they have not known my ways.' 1

Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. 1 So he became their enemy and fought against them. 1

Jeremiah 19:13so the houses of Jerusalem and of the kings of Judah will become like Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops the unclean people worship all the stars of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to other 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 →

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