Acts 7:42

Judgment

⁴⁰ They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

⁴¹ At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁴³ You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

⁴⁴ Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
KJV: Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
WEB: But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
ASV: But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
DARBY: But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
BLB: But God turned away and delivered them to worship the host of heaven, as it has been written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you⁺ offer slain beasts and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

ÅB: Men Gud vendte seg bort, og overgav dem til å dyrke himmelens hær, som skrevet er i profetenes bok: Israels hus! gav dere meg vel slaktoffer og andre offer i førti år i ørkenen?
OTB: Men Gud vendte seg bort fra dem og overga dem til å tilbe solen, månen og stjernene. Som det er skrevet i profetenes bok:
‘Brakte dere meg ofre og gaver
i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?
B1930: Men Gud vendte sig bort, og overgav dem til å dyrke himmelens hær, som skrevet er i profetenes bok: Israels hus! gav I mig vel slaktoffer og andre offer i firti år i ørkenen?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Amos 5:25–26
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Ezekiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
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Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
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Psalms 81:11–12
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
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Job 31:26–28
if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
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Romans 1:24–28
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
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Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
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