But Solomon built him an house.
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 princ...
(6) But Solomon built him an house. (6) Solomon built a temple according to God's commandment, but not under any condition that the majesty of God s...
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...
Solomon. Stephen does not enlarge upon the history of either David or Solomon, probably because he saw the gathering storm on the faces of his audi...
47. Solomon built. Stephen seemeth to gird Solomon glancingly (463) in this place, as if he did not regard the nature of God in building th...
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...
But Solomon built him an house. But Solomon built him an house.
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...
a Martyr's Glorious Death Acts 7:47-60 Words like these could not be forgiven. The growing irritation of the audience seems to have extorted th...
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...
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...
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...
But Solomon built him an house. Ver. 47. But Solomon built him a house ] A stately house indeed, one of the seven wonders of the world (how basel...
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...
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...
Stephen's Address. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of he...
1 Kings 6:9 2 Chronicles 3:1,2 . An house; a fixed and stable structure, not movable, as the tabernacle was.
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...
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...
‘But Solomon built him a house.' But it was Solomon who went about it. And what did he do? He built Him a house. And yet even Solomon had recognised...
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...
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....
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...
Acts 7:47-50 The Temples of God. Note: I. The physical creation. "Heaven is My throne; and earth is My footstool. Hath not My hand made these th...
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...
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...
But Solomon built Him an house. The temples of God Scripture divides the Divine dispensations into the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christi...
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 Tabernacle and the Temple:
But Solomon built Him an house.
1 Chronicles 17:1 ; 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 ; 2 Chronicles 2:1-4 ; 2 Sam...
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...
47 But Solomon built him an house.