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

And my people heard not to my voice; and Israel was not inclined to me.

Also I will choose upon their vexations, and I will bring their fears to them; for I called, and none answered; I spake, and they heard not: and they will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, they chose.

For a man, a man of the house of Israel, and of the stranger who shall sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate himself from after me, and shall bring up his blocks into his heart, and shall set the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and coming to the prophet to seek out to him for me; I Jehovah will answer to him for me:

And also I gave to them laws not good, and judgments they shall not live in them.

Ephraim is joined to images: leave him.

Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves:

And in all deceit of iniquity in the lost; because they received not the love of the truth, for them to be saved.

O ye

Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel?

Have ye

Thou broughtest not to me the sheep of thy burnt-offering, and thou honoredst me not with thy sacrifices I caused thee not to serve with a gift, and I wearied thee not with frankincense.

Of forty

Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:

Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

General references

Did ye bring near to me sacrifices and gifts in the desert forty years, O house of Israel?