Acts 7 · Verse 46

Acts 7:46

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:46, King James Version

Acts 7:46 in other translations

BSBwho found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
WEBwho found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
ASVwho found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
YLTwho found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
DARBYwho found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
BBEWho was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.
WebsterWho found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

What does Acts 7:46 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 7:42-50

42-50. gave them up--judicially. as ... written in the book of the prophets--the twelve minor prophets, reckoned as one: the passage is from Am 5:25. have ye offered to me ... sacrifices?--The answer is, Yes, but as if ye did it not; for "neither did ye offer to Me only, nor always, nor with a perfect and willing heart" [Bengel].

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 46. Who found favour. That is, God granted him great him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies.

To find a tabernacle. To prepare a permanent dwelling place for the ark and for the visible symbols of the Divine Presence. Hitherto the ark had been kept in the tabernacle, and had been borne about from place to place. David sought to build an house that would be permanent, where the ark might be deposited, 2Sam 7, 1Chr 22:7.

(d) "favour before God" 1Sam 16:1 (e) "desired to find a tabernacle" 1Chr 22:7

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 46 Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David's heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see 2Sam 7:2, etc., and see the purpose, Psa 132:2-5; but, as David had been a man of war, and had shed much blood, God would not permit him to build the temple; but he laid the plan and made provision for it, and Solomon executed the design.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 7:42-50

Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabernacle gave way to the temple; so it is now, that the earthly temple gives way to the spiritual one; and so it will be when, at last, the spiritual shall give way to the eternal one. The whole world is God's temple, in which he…

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Acts 7:46 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὃςhoswhoG3739
εὗρενheurenfoundG2147
χάρινcharinfavorG5485
ἐνώπιονenōpionbeforeG1799
τοῦtou<the>G3588
θεοῦtheouGodG2316
καὶkaiandG2532
ᾐτήσατοētēsatoaskedG154
εὑρεῖνheureinto findG2147
σκήνωμαskēnōmaa dwelling placeG4638
τῷtōfor theG3588
οἴκῳoikōhouseG3624
Ἰακώβ.Iakōbof Jacob.G2384

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Acts 7:46

  • Psalms 132:1-5

    A Song of degrees. Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, …

  • Acts 13:22

    And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

  • 2 Samuel 7:1-5

    And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee. And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, …

  • 1 Samuel 16:11-13

    And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

  • 1 Samuel 16:1

    And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

  • 2 Samuel 7:18-19

    Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

  • 1 Chronicles 17:1-4

    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. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:

  • 1 Chronicles 22:7-8

    And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

  • 2 Samuel 7:8-16

    Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house. …

  • 2 Samuel 6:21

    And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 15:28

    And Samuel said unto him, The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

  • 1 Chronicles 29:2-3

    Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
found.
13:22; 1Sa 15:28; 16:1,11-13; 2Sa 6:21; 7:1,8,18,19; 1Ch 28:4,5
Ps 78:68-72; 89:19-37; 132:11
and desired.
2Sa 7:1-5; 1Ki 8:17-19; 1Ch 17:1-4; 22:7,8; 28:2,3; 29:2,3
Ps 132:1-5

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Context

  • Acts 7:45

    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;

  • Acts 7:46

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

  • Acts 7:47

    But Solomon built him an house.

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Acts 7:46 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El cual halló gracia delante de Dios, y pidió hallar tabernáculo para el Dios de Jacob.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
qui trouva grâce devant Dieu, et qui demanda de trouver un tabernacle pour le Dieu de Jacob.
German
Elberfelder 1871
welcher Gnade fand vor Gott und eine Wohnstätte zu finden begehrte für den Gott Jakobs.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
qui invenit gratiam ante Deum, et petiit ut inveniret tabernaculum Deo Jacob.