Acts 7:47
But Solomon built a house for him.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
But Solomon built him an house.
In Context
46who found favor before God, and asked that he should build a tabernacle for the house of Jacob.
48But the Most High dwelleth not in houses built with hands, as the prophet says,
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 →