Acts - 7:46



46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 7:46.

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Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Who found grace before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;
David obtained favour with God, and asked leave to provide a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.
Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the house of Jacob.
who found grace before God and who asked that he might obtain a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
David found favor with God, and prayed that he might provide the God of Jacob with a place to reside.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Who found favour - That is, God granted him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies.
To find a tabernacle - To prepare a permanent dwelling-place for the "ark," and for the visible symbols of the divine presence. Hitherto the ark had been kept in the tabernacle, and had been borne about from place to place. David sought to build a house that would be permanent, where the ark might be deposited, 2 Sam. 7; 1-Chronicles 22:7.

Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David's heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see 2-Samuel 7:2, etc., and see the purpose, Psalm 132:2-5; but, as David had been a man of war, and had shed much blood, God would not permit him to build the temple; but he laid the plan and made provision for it, and Solomon executed the design.

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 heart, and raised up to do his will; and who had the grace of God implanted in him, and was acceptable, and well pleasing to God through Christ; the same is said of Noah, Genesis 6:8
and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; from whom the Israelites descended: David having a deep sense of the love of God to him, and the grace of God wrought in his heart, was exceeding desirous of finding a place for the building of an house, or fixed habitation for God; for there was a tabernacle already, which had been from the time of Moses, and which the children of Israel brought with them into Canaan, and was moved from place to place; sometimes it was at Gilgal, sometimes at Shiloh, and then it was at Nob, and Gibeah, and at length it was brought by David into his own city; but he wanted to build a settled and stable house for the Lord, of which there was a hint given that the Lord would choose a place to put his name in, Deuteronomy 16:2 but it seems, where that was to be was not known; and therefore David very anxiously sought after it; the reference is had to Psalm 132:3 where David determines not to go to his house, nor up to his bed, nor give sleep, to his eyes, nor slumber to his eyelids, till he had found out a place for the habitation of the God of Jacob.

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 built him a house. Observe how wisely the word is chosen with respect to what follows.

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