Acts 7:45-47

Amplified Bible

⁴⁵ Our fathers also brought it in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the ^[a]nations whom God drove out before our fathers, [and so it remained here] until the time of David,^{(A) 46} who found favor (grace, spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and asked that he might [be allowed to] find a dwelling place for the ^[b]God of Jacob.^{(B) 47} But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.^(C)