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Acts 7:43-47
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Acts 7:43-47
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42-43 “God wasn’t at all pleased; but he let them do it their way, worship every new god that came down the pike—and live with the consequences, consequences described by the prophet Amos:
Did you bring me offerings of animals and grains
those forty wilderness years, O Israel?
Hardly. You were too busy building shrines
to war gods, to sex goddesses,
Worshiping them with all your might.
That’s why I put you in exile in Babylon.
44-47 “And all this time our ancestors had a tent shrine for true worship, made to the exact specifications God provided Moses. They had it with them as they followed Joshua, when God cleared the land of pagans, and still had it right down to the time of David. David asked God for a permanent place for worship. But Solomon built it.
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Acts 7:43-45
New International Version
Acts 7:43-45
New International Version
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[a](A) beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law(B) with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.(C) 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them.(D) It remained in the land until the time of David,(E)
Footnotes
- Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
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