Acts 7:47

Contemporary English Version

And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
But Solomon was the builder of his 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 God turned his back on his people and left them. Then they worshiped the stars in the sky, just as it says in the Book of the Prophets, "People of Israel, you didn't offer sacrifices and offerings to me during those forty years in the desert. ⁴³ Instead, you carried the tent where the god Molech is worshiped, and you took along the star of your god Rephan. You made those idols and worshiped them. So now I will have you carried off beyond Babylonia." ⁴⁴ The tent where our ancestors worshiped God was with them in the desert. This was the same tent that God had commanded Moses to make. And it was made like the model that Moses had seen. ⁴⁵ Later it was given to our ancestors, and they took it with them when they went with Joshua. They carried the tent along as they took over the land from those people that God had chased out for them. Our ancestors used this tent until the time of King David. ⁴⁶ He pleased God and asked him if he could build a house of worship for the people of Israel. ⁴⁷ And it was finally King Solomon who built a house for God. ⁴⁸ But the Most High God doesn't live in houses made by humans. It is just as the prophet said, when he spoke for the Lord, ⁴⁹ "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? In what place will I rest? ⁵⁰ I have made everything."

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.