Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
In Context
47But Solomon built him a house.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:5“The house which I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
Psalms 7:17I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 92:8But you, LORD, are on high forever more.
Daniel 4:17“‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
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 →