44 "In the wilderness our fathers had the Tent of the Testimony made as he who spoke to Moses directed, according to the model which he had seen.

45 This Tent our fathers who were with Joshua received in their turn and brought into the land of the nations whom God drove out from before our fathers, and it remained until the days of David.

46 He found favor with God and prayed that he might provide a temple for the house of Israel.

47 But Solomon built for him a house.

48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in buildings made by hands; as the prophet says,

49 'Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. What sort of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?

50 Did not my hand make all these things?'