Acts 7:46

God's Real Tabernacle

⁴⁵ Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David, ⁴⁶ Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob. ⁴⁷ But Solomon was the builder of his 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

Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;

Acts 13:22

And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

1 Samuel 16:1

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

2 Samuel 7:1-5

Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

2 Samuel 7:8-16

Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

2 Samuel 7:18-19

Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

1 Chronicles 17:1-4

Now when David was living in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet, See, I am living in a house of cedar-wood, but the ark of the Lord's agreement is under the curtains of a tent.

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

1 Samuel 16:11-13

Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.

2 Samuel 6:21

And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;

1 Kings 8:17-19

Now it was in the heart of David my father to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 22:7-8

And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.

1 Chronicles 28:2-5

Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.

1 Chronicles 29:2-3

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

Psalm 78:68-72

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Psalm 89:19-37

Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.