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Acts 7:46
who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:46 · Berean Standard Bible
Acts 7:46 in other translations
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
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In context
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.
45 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.
48 However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
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