45 and which, after[a] receiving it[b] in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the[c] nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David, 46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.[d] 47 But Solomon built a house for him.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:45 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“receiving”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 7:45 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Acts 7:45 Literally “in the possession of the”
  4. Acts 7:46 Some manuscripts have “for the house of Jacob”