Acts 7

44 "Our fathers had *Rev. 15:5;See Ex. 38:21the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses *See Ex. 25:40directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 45 Our fathers in turn *Josh. 3:14-17brought it in with Joshua when they *Num. 32:5;Deut. 32:49dispossessed the nations *ch. 13:19;Josh. 3:10;23:9;24:18;2 Chr. 20:7that God drove out before our fathers. So it was *2 Sam. 7:1until the days of David, 46 *ch. 13:22;1 Sam. 16:1;Ps. 89:19who found favor in the sight of God and *1 Kgs. 8:17;1 Chr. 22:7;Ps. 132:5asked to find a dwelling place for *[Gen. 49:24;Isa. 49:26]the God of Jacob.*7:46 Some manuscripts for the house of Jacob47 But it was *2 Sam. 7:13;1 Kgs. 6:1,2;8:20;2 Chr. 3:1Solomon who built a house for him. 48 *[1 Kgs. 8:27;2 Chr. 2:6] Yet the Most High does not dwell *ch. 17:24in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,

49 *[Ps. 11:4] "‘Heaven is my throne,

*Matt. 5:34,35;Cited from Isa. 66:1,2and the earth is my footstool.

What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,

or what is the place of my rest?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?’