🌊WEB · Acts 7:46

What does Acts 7:46 mean?

"who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob."

— Acts 7:46 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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You 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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“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

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which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,

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who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

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But Solomon built him a house.

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However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

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‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?

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