45 (A)Which tabernacle also our fathers [a]received, and brought in with Jesus into the [b]possession of the Gentiles, which God drove out [c]before our fathers, unto the days of David:

46 (B)Who found favor before God, and desired that he might find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

47 (C)[d]But Solomon built him an house.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:45 Delivered from hand to hand.
  2. Acts 7:45 By the figure Metonymy, for the countries which the Gentiles possessed.
  3. Acts 7:45 God drove them out, that they should yield up the possession of those countries to our fathers, when they entered into the land.
  4. Acts 7:47 Solomon built a Temple, according to God’s commandment, but not with any such condition, that the Majesty of God should be enclosed therein.

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