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40 asaying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’  
41 aAnd they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and brejoiced in the works of their own hands.  
42 Then aGod turned and gave them up to worship bthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
c‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel? 
43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And aI will carry you away beyond Babylon.’  

God’s True Tabernacle

44 “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ato make it according to the pattern that he had seen,  
45 awhich our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, bwhom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the cdays of David,  
46 awho found favor before God and basked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.  
47 aBut Solomon built Him a house.  
48 “However, athe Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says: 
49 ‘Heavena is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of My rest? 
50 Has My hand not amade all these things?’  

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 “You astiff-necked and buncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.  
52 aWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of bthe Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,  
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Acts 7:42

Gave them up (paredwken). First aorist active indicative of paradidwmi. This same form occurs three times like clods on a coffin in a grave in Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:28 where Paul speaks of God giving the heathen up to their lusts.

To serve the host of heaven (latreuein th stratiai tou ouranou). The verb latreuw is used of the worship of God (Matthew 4:10) as well as of idols as here (from latron, hire, latriv, hireling, then to serve). But the worship of the host of heaven (Deuteronomy 17:3; II Kings 17:16; II Kings 21:3; II Chronicles 33:3, II Chronicles 33:5; Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 19:13) is Sabaism or worship of the host (stratia) of heaven (sun, moon, and stars) instead of the Lord of hosts. This star-worship greatly injured the Jews.

In the book of the prophets (en biblw twn profhtwn). That is the twelve minor prophets which the Jews counted as one book (cf. Acts 13:40). This quotation is from Amos 5:25-27. The greater prophets were Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.

Slain beasts (sfagia). Here only in the N.T. (from Amos 5:25) sfagh, slaughter, sfazw, to slay.


 
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