Acts 7:47
What meaning of the acts 7:47 in the Bible?
What does Acts 7:47 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But Solomon built him an house."
What does Acts 7:47 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But Solomon built him an house."
ACTS 7:3-51 In addition to several direct quotations from the Septuagint, Stephen’s speech consists of a series of allusions to and summaries of Israelitish history. In these phrases drawn from the...
BUT SOLOMON ... - Built the temple. David was not permitted to do it because he had been a man of war, 1 Chronicles 22:8. He prepared the principal materials for the temple, but Solomon built it, 1 Ch...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1)._ 2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54). This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first section. Stephen is the chosen instrumen...
The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witness which he made according to the pattern showed hi...
STEPHEN'S DEFENCE (Acts 7:1-7) When Oliver Cromwell was outlining the education he thought necessary for his son Richard, he said, "I would have him know a little history." It was to the lesson of hi...
SOLOMON. Stephen does not enlarge upon the history of either David or Solomon, probably because he saw the gathering storm on the faces of his audience....
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE TRUE TABERNACLE OF GOD ACTS 7:44-50:_ Israel had the tabernacle of witness. The tabernacle was built according to the pattern shown Moses. The Tabernacle was a perpetual witness between God and t...
ΟΊΚΟΔΌΜΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ (G3618) строить, ΑΎΤΩ _dat. sing. от_ ΑΎΤΌΣ. _Dat._ преимущества или личной заинтересованности: "для Него"....
AND DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE, &C.— 'Ητησατο, _made it his petition._ From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how greatly he longed to find out a place for the Lord,—_an hab...
c. Stephen's defence. Acts 7:1-53. Acts 7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things so? Acts 7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,...
See notes on verse 44...
But Solomon built him an house. BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE....
41 Idolatry is, etymologically, the offering of divine service to that which can be perceived by the senses. In this way, all objects of worship, even if they are supposed to be representations of the...
DEFENCE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech does...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN’S SPEECH, PART 1: ABRAHAM’S *FAITH IN GOD, 7:1-8 V1 The *high priest asked Stephen, ‘Is this true?’ V2 Stephen replied, ‘Listen, brot...
Σολομῶν, see above on Acts 3:11. δὲ : “But” or “And” δὲ, adversative as in A. and R.V., _cf._ 2 Chronicles 6:7-9, where Solomon is represented as claiming God's promise that he should build the house...
A MARTYR'S GLORIOUS DEATH Acts 7:47-60 Words like these could not be forgiven. The growing irritation of the audience seems to have extorted those burning remonstrances, and to have hastened the fin...
The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...
God's True House The pattern for the making of the tabernacle was one of the things God revealed through Moses. Very clearly, Stephen noted that God intended for His pattern to be followed exactly (H...
(6) But Solomon built him an house. (6) Solomon built a temple according to God's commandment, but not under any condition that the majesty of God should be enclosed within it....
CHURCH EDIFICES 44-50. Here Stephen alludes to the grand spiritual meaning of the portable tabernacle which God dictated to Moses on Sinai and the beautiful symbolic significance of Solomon's temple....
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
47._Solomon built. _Stephen seemeth to gird Solomon glancingly (463) in this place, as if he did not regard the nature of God in building the temple; yet did he attempt that work not without the comma...
Stephen, [11] as far as we are told, had not known the Lord during His life on earth. Certainly he was not appointed, like the apostles, to be a witness of that life. He was simply the instrument of t...
BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE. Though David was so set upon it, and made such large provisions for it, he was not to be the man that should build it, he having been greatly concerned in wars, and in...
But Solomon built him an house. Ver. 47. _But Solomon built him a house_] A stately house indeed, one of the seven wonders of the world (how basely soever Florus writeth of it, out of his deep and de...
_Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness_ Greek, του μαρτυριου, _of the testimony._ The two tables of stone, on which the ten commandments were written, were most properly _the testimony_, as being...
The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...
BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM A HOUSE. 1. As God promised David, his son would build God's house. 2. 480 years after the children of Israel left Egypt, the Temple was built. (1 Kings 6:1)...
But Solomon built him. house. Points to Note: As great as the tabernacle was (built according to. divine blueprint), it was replaced by the Temple. Thus there is nothing blasphemous about saying tha...
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 taberna...
1 Kings 6:9 2 Chronicles 3:1,2. AN HOUSE; a fixed and stable structure, not movable, as the tabernacle was....
Acts 7:47 But G1161 Solomon G4672 built G3618 (G5656) Him G846 house G3624 2 Samuel 7:13; 1 Kings 5:1-18, 1 Kings 6:1, 1 Kings 6:37-38, 1 Kings 7:13-51,...
WHAT ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS GOD'S DWELLINGPLACE HAD BEEN (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenistic Jews, certainly in Alexandria where they were used...
_Third Division of Stephens Speech._ Acts 7:37-53. _Moses and the Prophets._ Moses is again the central figure of the history, but now he stands forward as the great deliverer of the people. Stephen h...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
CONTENTS: Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stephen, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Aaron, Solomon, Sau...
The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shoul...
OUR ANCESTORS HAD THE TENT OF GOD'S PRESENCE. [_Tabernacle_ is an old word for _tent._] This tent was a "portable temple," and served to focus the worship of God and act as a witness to the Covenant....
_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_ THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS QUESTION This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called fo...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:1 Stephen’s defense is the longest speech in Acts 1:1. It is a selective summary of OT history that turned the charges on his accusers: _they_ were the ones disobeying God because...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:1. The high priest’s question, ARE THESE THINGS SO? analogous to that put to Christ (Matthew 26:62), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2. Concerning...
EXPOSITION ACTS 7:1 _And the high priest said _for then _said the high priest, _A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1. Acts 9:1 and Matthew 26:62). Theophilus the so...
Let's turn tonight to Acts chapter 7. In the early church when a dispute arose among the Grecians--that is, those Jews of the Grecian culture. They were actually Jews, but they had followed the Grecia...
1 Chronicles 17:1; 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 6:37; 1 Kings 6:38; 1 Kings 7:13; 1 Kings 8:20; 2 Chronicles 2:1; 2 Samuel 7:13;...
STEPHEN'S LAST WORDS AND MARTYRDOM Acts 7:44 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great benefactions to Israel (see Acts 7:44). 1. THE FATHERS HAD THE TABERN...