Acts 7:42

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

And gave

2 Thessalonians 2:10

O ye

Amos 5:25

Have ye

Isaiah 43:23

Of forty

Psalm 95:10

Hebrews 3:9

General references

Amos 5:25

Bible References

And gave

But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

I also will choose their calamities, and will bring their fears upon them; because I called, and none answered, I spoke, and they did not hear, but did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delight not.

For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire of me by him, I Jehovah will answer him by myself;

And I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;

Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

O ye

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

Have ye

thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation, nor wearied thee with incense.

Of forty

Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.

General references

Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?