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Acts 7:50

'WAS IT NOT MY HAND THAT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   God;   Government;   Quotations and Allusions;   Readings, Select;   Thompson Chain Reference - Creator;   God;   Stephen;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Stephen;   Tabernacle;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Future State;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Preaching in the Bible;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hand;   Law;   Libertines;   Temple;   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stephen;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Persecution;   Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Did not my hand make all these things?
King James Version (1611)
Hath not my hand made all these things?
King James Version
Hath not my hand made all these things?
English Standard Version
Did not my hand make all these things?'
New American Standard Bible
'WAS IT NOT MY HAND THAT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'
New Century Version
Remember, my hand made all these things!'" Isaiah 66:1–2
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'WAS IT NOT MY HAND WHICH MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'
Legacy Standard Bible
Was it not My hand which made all these things?'
Berean Standard Bible
Has not My hand made all these things?'
Contemporary English Version
I have made everything."
Complete Jewish Bible
Didn't I myself make all these things?'
Darby Translation
has not my hand made all these things?
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember, I made all these things!'"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hath not mine hand made all these things?
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, has not my hand made all these things?
Good News Translation
Did not I myself make all these things?'
Lexham English Bible
Did not my hand make all these things?'
Literal Translation
"Did not My hands make all these things?" Isa. 66:1, 2
American Standard Version
Did not my hand make all these things?
Bible in Basic English
Did not my hand make all these things?
Hebrew Names Version
Didn't my hand make all these things?'
International Standard Version
It was my hand that made all these things, wasn't it?'"Isaiah 66:1-2">[fn]
Etheridge Translation
Hath not my hand made all these ?
Murdock Translation
Lo, hath not my hand made all these things?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hath not my hande made all these thynges?
English Revised Version
Did not my hand make all these things?
World English Bible
Didn't my hand make all these things?'
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Hath not my hand made all these things? Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Ghost:
Weymouth's New Testament
Did not My hand form this universe.'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether myn hoond made not alle these thingis?
Update Bible Version
Did not my hand make all these things?
Webster's Bible Translation
Hath not my hand made all these things?
New English Translation
Did my hand not make all these things? '
New King James Version
Has My hand not made all these things?' Isaiah 66:1, 2 ">[fn]
New Living Translation
Didn't my hands make both heaven and earth?'
New Life Bible
Did not My hands make all these things?'
New Revised Standard
Did not my hand make all these things?'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hath not, my hand, made all these things?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath not my hand made all these things?
Revised Standard Version
Did not my hand make all these things?'
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
hath not my honde made all these thinges?
Young's Literal Translation
hath not My hand made all these things?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hath not my hande made all these thinges?
Mace New Testament (1729)
hath not my hand made all these things?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't you remember it was my hands that created all the heavens and the entire earth?'

Contextual Overview

42"But God turned away [from them] and handed them over to serve the host of heaven. As it is written and forever remains written in the book of the prophets, 'IT WAS NOT [really] TO ME THAT YOU OFFERED VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FOR FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, WAS IT, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? 43'YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE (portable temple) OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF THE GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP; AND I WILL REMOVE YOU BEYOND BABYLON [carrying you away into exile].' 44"Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God directed Moses to make it according to the pattern which he had seen. 45"Our fathers also brought it in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, [and so it remained here] until the time of David, 46who found favor (grace, spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and asked that he might [be allowed to] find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. 47"But it was Solomon who built a house for Him. 48"However, the Most High [the One infinitely exalted above humanity] does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet [Isaiah] says, 49'HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND THE EARTH IS THE FOOTSTOOL FOR MY FEET; WHAT KIND OF HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME?' says the Lord, 'OR WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR MY REST? 50'WAS IT NOT MY HAND THAT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 14:15, Exodus 20:11, Psalms 33:6-9, Psalms 50:9-12, Psalms 146:5, Psalms 146:6, Isaiah 40:28, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:8, Isaiah 45:12, Jeremiah 10:11, Jeremiah 32:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 17:4 - almost Job 42:10 - when

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hath not my hand made all these things? The heaven, and the earth, and all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it, "all these creatures"; and therefore what can be made for God? or what house built for him? in Isaiah the words are read without an interrogation, and affirm that his hand had made all these things, and therefore nothing could be made for him suitable to him, by the hands of men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 50. Hath not my hand made all these things? — Stephen certainly had not finished his discourse, nor drawn his inferences from the facts already stated; but it is likely that, as they perceived he was about to draw conclusions unfavourable to the temple and its ritual, they immediately raised up a clamour against him, which was the cause of the following very cutting address.


 
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