Acts 7:44-50

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

The Fathers Had The Tabernacle And The Temple. But God Does Not Dwell In Either

⁴⁴ “The tabernacle of testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as the One speaking to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen; ⁴⁵ which our fathers, having received-it-in-succession, also brought in with Joshua during the taking-possession of the nations whom God drove-out from the presence of our fathers— until the days of David, ⁴⁶ who found favor before God. And he asked that he might find a dwelling-place^[a] for the house of Jacob, ⁴⁷ but Solomon built a house for Him. ⁴⁸ But the Most-High does not dwell in things made-by-human-hands, just as the prophet says [in Isa 66:1-2]: ⁴⁹ ‘The heaven is a throne for Me, and the earth is a footstool of My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me?’ says the Lord, ‘or what will be the place of My rest? ⁵⁰ Did not My hand make all these things?’