Acts 7:49
Heaven is my throne, and earth the footstool under my feet. What is the house, ye will build for me? saith the Lord: or, what is the place of my repose?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
48Yet the most High lodgeth not in a work of human hands; as saith the prophet:
50Lo, hath not my hand made all these things?
Cross References
Matthew 23:22And he who sweareth by heaven, sweareth by throne of God, and by him that sitteth on it.
John 4:21Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, ye will worship the Father.
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 →