Acts 7

God’s Real Tabernacle

44 "Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.  * 7:44 Ex 25:8–9,40; 38:21; Heb 8:545 Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them,  * 7:45 Jos 3:14; 18:1; 23:9; 24:18; Ps 44:2 until the days of David. 46 He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God  * 7:46 Other mss read house of Jacob.  * 7:46 2Sm 7:1,8; 1Ch 22:7; Ps 89:19; 132:547 It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,  * 7:47 1Kg 6:1–2; 8:17–20; 2Ch 3:148 but the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:  * 7:48 1Kg 8:27; 2Ch 2:6

49 Heaven is my throne,

and the earth my footstool.

What sort of house will you build for me?

says the Lord,

or what will be my resting place?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?* 7:49–50 Is 66:1–2,* 7:49–50 Is 66:1–2; Mt 5:34–35