Acts 7:45
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.
And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
47 But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
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.
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- BSB
- And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
- KJV
- Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
- WEB
- which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David,
- ASV
- Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
- DARBY
- which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of [the lands of] the nations, whom God drove out from [the] face of our fathers, until the days of David;
- BLB
- and which, having received [it] by succession, our fathers brought in with Joshua in taking possession of the nations whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David,
- ÅB
- dette tok våre fedre i arv, og førte det med Josva inn i de hedningers eiendomsland som Gud drev bort for våre fedre, inntil Davids dager.
- OTB
- Våre forfedre mottok det og tok det med Josva da de fortrengte nasjonene Gud drev ut foran dem. Det forble i landet inntil Davids tid,
- B1930
- dette tok våre fedre i arv, og førte det med Josva inn i de hedningers eiendomsland som Gud drev bort for våre fedre, inntil Davids dager.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 44:2
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
Read in contextJoshua 24:18
And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”
Read in contextJoshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
Read in contextJoshua 23:9
The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
Read in contextJudges 18:31
So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
Read in context1 Chronicles 15:1–17
David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:49
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:24
So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
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