Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Which also our fathers that came after, х diadexamenoi (G1237)] - rather 'Which also our fathers having received it (that is, the custody of the tabernacle) by succession' from their ancestors,
Brought in with Jesus (that is, Joshua) into the possession of the Gentiles, х en (G1722) tee (G3588) kataschesei (G2697)]. So the Vulgate, and after it Calvin, Grotius, Humphry, and Hackett [taking en (G1722) as = eis (G1519)]. Another rendering has been adopted by DeWette, Meyer, Alford, Webster and Wilkinson, and Alexander-`brought in with Joshua at the taking possession of (the territory of) the Gentiles.' (This would be preferable if the active sense of the word rendered 'possession' were sufficiently proved, which however it scarcely is).
Whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David - for until then Jerusalem continued in the hands of the Jebusites. But Stephen's object in mentioning David is to hasten from the tabernacle which he set up, to the temple which his son built, in Jerusalem; and this only to show, from their own Scriptures (Isaiah 66:1-2), that even that temple, magnificent though it was, not the proper resting-place of Yahweh upon earth-as His audience and the nation had all along been prone to imagine.