Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
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Gill's Exposition
Who found favour before God,.... That is, David, who had an interest in the free favour and love of God, was chosen of God, a man after his own heart, and raised up to do his will; and who had the…
Barnes' Notes
Who found favour ... - That is, God granted him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies. To find a tabernacle - To prepare a permanent dwelling-place for the “ark,” and for the visible…
Adam Clarke
Desired to find a tabernacle - This was in David's heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see Sa2 7:2, etc., and see the purpose, Psa 132:2-5; but, as David had been a man of war, and had shed…
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…
Cambridge Bible
to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob referring to Psa 132:5, "Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." A reading which is largely accepted gives, "for…
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