Acts 7:47

God's Real Tabernacle

⁴⁶ He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built Him a house. ⁴⁸ However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:

Solomon

1 Kings 8:20

The Lord has fulfilled what He promised.
I have taken the place of my father David,
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised.
I have built the temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

1 Kings 6:37-38

The foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year in the month of Ziv.

1 Kings 5:1-2

Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place, for Hiram had always been friends with David.

1 Kings 7:13-51

King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre.

1 Chronicles 17:1

When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under tent curtains.”

2 Chronicles 2:1-4

Solomon decided to build a temple for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself,

2 Chronicles 3:1

Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Zechariah 6:12-13

You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Here is a man whose name is Branch; He will branch out from His place and build the Lord’s temple.