Acts 7:42

But God turned, and abandoned them to serve the hosts of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets,'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrificesforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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In The King James Version

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

41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

43You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,the star of your god Rephan,the figures which you made to worship.I will carry you away beyond Babylon.'

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:3and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the army of the sky, which I have not commanded;

2 Kings 17:16They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

Job 31:26if I have seen the sun when it shined,or the moon moving in splendor,

Psalms 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart.They have not known my ways."

Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Jeremiah 19:13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured 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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