47But Solomon built him an house.
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And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif: …
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-50)Two things we have in these verses:— I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them up to, as a punishment for their early forsaking him in worshipping the golden calf; and this was the saddest punishment of all for that sin, as it was of the idolatry of the Gentile world that God gave them up to a reprobate mind . When Israel was joined to idols , joined to the g…
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