Acts 7:46

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who found favour ... - That is, God granted him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies. To find a tabernacle - To prepare a per...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witne...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

before . in the eyes of. Greek. enopion. desired . asked. Greek. aiteo. App-134. See 2 Samuel 7:2 ; 2 Samuel 7:3 . tabernacle. Greek. sk...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David's heart, and it...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And desired to find a tabernacle, &c.— 'Ητησατο, made it his petition. From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how gr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Who found favour before God and desired, х eeteesato...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Defence and Martyrdom of Stephen 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, a...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who found favour before God. — Again we trace, though still in the form of a narrative, an indirect answer to the accusation brought against Stephe...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Stephen's Defense: Disobedience in the Wilderness Acts 7:30-46 The angel who appeared in the bush that burned with fire was the angel of God's...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) Whe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who found favour before God ,.... That is, David, who had an interest in the free favour and love of God, was chosen of God, a man after his own hea...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Ver. 46. Who found favour ] This he made more account of than...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness Greek, του μαρτυριου, of the testimony. The two tables of stone, on which the ten commandments were wri...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Stephen's Address. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of he...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Found favour before God; as Luke 1:30 . Desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; it was David's earnest request, that he might any w...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What Israel's Attitude Towards God's Dwellingplace Had Been (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenisti...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Reply to the Charge of Speaking Against the Law and the Temple (7:44-53). Having been accused of speaking against the Law Stephen defends himself...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the house of Jacob (or in some MSS ‘the God of Jacob').' And David himself...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:1 . The high priest’s question, Are these things so? analogous to that put to Christ ( Matthew 26:62 ), was equivalent...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:45 . Our fathers that came after should be simply our fathers. Jesus is Joshua , as in Hebrews 4:8 . Into (lit....
Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually rep...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defe...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then said the high priest, Are these things so? The high priest and his question This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaph...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 7:1 And the high priest said for then said the high priest, A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (s...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Tabernacle and the Temple:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

who found favor before God, and desired to and a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Stephen's Last Words and Martyrdom Acts 7:44-60 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great benefactions...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Who petitioned to find a habitation for the God of Jacob — But he did not obtain his petition: for God remained without any temple till Solomon bui...

⁴⁶ Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Related Commentaries of Acts 7:46

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 7:46