NET Bible
"He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob."
— Acts 7:46, NET Bible
“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.”
“Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.”
“Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.”
“Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.”
But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.’
Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.
Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.
He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.
But Solomon built a house for him.
Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,
‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?