Acts 7:46

Acts 7:46

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:

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David' s heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see II Samuel 7:2, etc., and see the purpose, Psalms 132:2-5; but, as David had been a man of war, and had shed much blood, God would not permit him to build the temple; but he laid the plan and made provision for it, and Solomon executed the design.

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