44 Ex 25.9,40"Our ancestors had the Tent of God’s presence with them in the desert. It had been made as God had told Moses to make it, according to the pattern that Moses had been shown. 45 Js 3.14-17Later on, our ancestors who received the tent from their fathers carried it with them when they went with Joshua and took over the land from the nations that God drove out as they advanced. And it stayed there until the time of David. 46 2 S 7.1-16;1 Ch 17.1-14He won God’s favor and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.7.46: the God of Jacob; some manuscripts have the people of Israel.47 1 K 6.1-38;2 Ch 3.1-17But it was Solomon who built him a house.
48 "But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,
49 Is 66.1,2‘Heaven is my throne, says the Lord,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house would you build for me?
Where is the place for me to live in?
50 Did not I myself make all these things?’
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