Acts 7:49
"`The sky is My throne, and earth is the footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what resting place shall I have?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
48Yet the Most High does not dwell in buildings erected by men's hands. But, as the Prophet declares,
50Did not My hand form this universe.'
Cross References
Matthew 23:22and he who swears by Heaven swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.
John 4:21"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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 →