Acts 7:50
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?
Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
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
- Has not My hand made all these things?’
- KJV
- Hath not my hand made all these things?
- WEB
- Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
- ASV
- Did not my hand make all these things?
- DARBY
- has not my hand made all these things?
- BLB
- Did not My hand make all these things?’
- ÅB
- Har ikke min hånd gjort alt dette?
- OTB
- Er det ikke min hånd som har laget alle disse tingene?’
- B1930
- Har ikke min hånd gjort alt dette?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Read in contextIsaiah 66:2
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Read in contextPsalms 33:6–9
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Read in contextExodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Read in contextPsalms 50:9–12
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Read in contextPsalms 146:5–6
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Read in contextJeremiah 10:11
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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