Acts 7:46

God's Real Tabernacle

⁴⁵ Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David. ⁴⁶ He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who built Him a house.

Before God

Favor with God

Found Favor with God

In the Sight of God

Pleasing to God

With God

O God

David

Jacob

Psalm 132:1-5

A song of ascents.Lord, remember David
and all the hardships he endured,

Acts 13:22

After removing him, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man loyal to Me, who will carry out all My will.’

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected a king from his sons.”

2 Samuel 7:1-5

When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

2 Samuel 7:8-16

“Now this is what you are to say to My servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.

2 Samuel 7:18-19

Then King David went in, sat in the Lord’s presence, and said,

Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?

1 Chronicles 17:1-4

When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Look! I am living in a cedar house while the ark of the Lord’s covenant is under tent curtains.”

1 Samuel 15:28

Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingship of Israel away from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

1 Samuel 16:11-13

Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?”

“There is still the youngest,” he answered, “but right now he’s tending the sheep.” Samuel told Jesse, “Send for him. We won’t sit down to eat until he gets here.”

2 Samuel 6:21

David replied to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the Lord,

1 Kings 8:17-19

It was in the desire of my father David
to build a temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 22:7-8

“My son,” David said to Solomon, “It was in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,

1 Chronicles 28:2-5

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the Lord’s covenant and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build,

1 Chronicles 29:2-3

So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.

Psalm 78:68-72

He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalm 89:19-37

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore an oath to David,
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.