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Acts 7:47

But Solomon was the builder of his house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Government;   Readings, Select;   Temple;   Scofield Reference Index - Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Stephen;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Persecution;   Stephen;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It was Solomon, rather, who built him a house,
King James Version (1611)
But Solomon built him an house.
King James Version
But Solomon built him an house.
English Standard Version
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
New American Standard Bible
"But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.
New Century Version
But Solomon was the one who built the Temple.
Amplified Bible
"But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.
Legacy Standard Bible
But Solomon built a house for Him.
Berean Standard Bible
But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.
Contemporary English Version
And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God.
Complete Jewish Bible
and Shlomo did build him a house.
Darby Translation
but Solomon built him a house.
Easy-to-Read Version
But Solomon was the one who built the Temple.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But Solomon built him an house.
George Lamsa Translation
But Solomon built God a house.
Good News Translation
But it was Solomon who built him a house.
Lexham English Bible
But Solomon built a house for him.
Literal Translation
but Solomon built Him a house.
American Standard Version
But Solomon built him a house.
Hebrew Names Version
But Shlomo built him a house.
International Standard Version
but it was Solomon who built a house for him.1 Kings 6:1; 8:20; 1 Chronicles 17:12; 2 Chronicles 3:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
But Shelemun builded the house.
Murdock Translation
But Solomon built the house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But Solomon buylt hym an house.
English Revised Version
But Solomon built him a house.
World English Bible
But Solomon built him a house.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But Solomon built him an house.
Weymouth's New Testament
But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Salomon bildide the hous `to hym.
Update Bible Version
But Solomon built him a house.
Webster's Bible Translation
But Solomon built him a house.
New English Translation
But Solomon built a house for him.
New King James Version
But Solomon built Him a house.
New Living Translation
But it was Solomon who actually built it.
New Life Bible
But Solomon was the one who built the house of God for Him.
New Revised Standard
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, Solomon, built him a house.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But Solomon built him a house,
Revised Standard Version
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But Salomon bylt him an housse.
Young's Literal Translation
and Solomon built Him an house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Salomon buylte hi an house.
Mace New Testament (1729)
it was Solomon however that built him a temple.
Simplified Cowboy Version
God didn't let David build it, but he did let his son Solomon complete the church.

Contextual Overview

42 But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel? 43 And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon. 44 Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen. 45 Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David, 46 Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon was the builder of his house. 48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says, 49 Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest? 50 Did not my hand make all these things?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 5:1-18, 1 Kings 6:1, 1 Kings 6:37, 1 Kings 6:38, 1 Kings 7:13-51, 1 Kings 8:20, 1 Chronicles 17:1, 2 Chronicles 2:1 - 2 Chronicles 4:22, Zechariah 6:12, Zechariah 6:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:2 - was no 1 Kings 6:14 - General 1 Chronicles 17:12 - He shall Psalms 132:5 - an habitation Mark 12:1 - and set

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 the effusion of blood; but Solomon his son, who enjoyed much peace, was the person designed for this work, and who did accomplish it; of which there is a large account in the 1 Kings 6:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Chronicles 22:0: Compare 1 Kings 6:0.


 
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