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Acts 7:39 “But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. 40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’ 41 That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made. 42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:
“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[j] beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46 who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[k] 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48 “However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 “‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?’[l]
h.Acts 7:37 Deut. 18:15
i.Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1
j.Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
k.Acts 7:46 Some early manuscripts the house of Jacob
l.Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1,2
You can tell that Stephen was a Greek speaking person. The Greeks loved to talk.
I'm sure by now the Sanhedrin was bored to tears. They knew all this history.
All Stephen was telling them to this point was the very history that they had memorized.
They had these scriptures in little pouches that they wore every day.
Some of the members of the Sanhedrin were probably thinking to themselves "We asked you to confess, not bore us."
“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[j] beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46 who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[k] 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48 “However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 “‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?’[l]
h.Acts 7:37 Deut. 18:15
i.Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1
j.Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
k.Acts 7:46 Some early manuscripts the house of Jacob
l.Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1,2
You can tell that Stephen was a Greek speaking person. The Greeks loved to talk.
I'm sure by now the Sanhedrin was bored to tears. They knew all this history.
All Stephen was telling them to this point was the very history that they had memorized.
They had these scriptures in little pouches that they wore every day.
Some of the members of the Sanhedrin were probably thinking to themselves "We asked you to confess, not bore us."