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Acts 7:47

Solomon

45 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;

46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

But Solomon built him an house.

48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

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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
But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
KJV
But Solomon built him an house.
WEB
But Solomon built him a house.
ASV
But Solomon built him a house.
DARBY
but Solomon built him a house.
BLB
But Solomon built for Him a house.
ÅB
Men Salomo bygget ham et hus.
OTB
Likevel var det Salomo som bygde et hus for Ham.
B1930
Men Salomo bygget ham et hus.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 8:20

    And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

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  • 2 Samuel 7:13

    He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

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  • 1 Kings 6:37–38

    In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

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  • 1 Kings 7:13–51

    And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

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  • 2 Chronicles 3:1

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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  • 1 Kings 5:1–6:2

    And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

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  • 2 Chronicles 2:1–4

    And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

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  • 1 Chronicles 17:1

    Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

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