Acts 7:47

But Solomon builded the house to him. [Solomon forsooth built an house to him.] (But it was Solomon who built a House, or the Temple, for him.)

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In The King James Version

But Solomon built him an house.

In Context

46that found grace with God, and asked that he should find a tabernacle to (the) God of Jacob. (who found grace with God, and asked if he could make a Tabernacle for the God of Jacob.)

48But the high God dwelleth not in things made by hand, as he saith by the prophet,

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Cross References

1 Kings 5:1Also Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants to Solomon; for he heard that they had anointed him king for his father (or for he had heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father); for Hiram was (a) friend of David in all time.

1 Kings 7:13Also king Solomon sent, and brought from Tyre, Hiram + 7:13 Also known as Huram., (And King Solomon sent for, and brought there Hiram from Tyre,)

1 Chronicles 17:1Forsooth when David dwelled in his house, he said to Nathan, the prophet, Lo! I dwell in an house of cedars; and the ark of [the] bond of peace of the Lord is under skins. (And when David was in his house, he said to the prophet Nathan, Behold! I live in a cedar house; but the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord is under curtains, (or in a tent).)

2 Chronicles 3:1And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in the hill of Moriah, that was showed to David, his father, in the place that David had made ready in the cornfloor of Ornan (the) Jebusite. (And so Solomon began to build the House of the Lord in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, on the place that David had prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.)

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 →

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