Acts 7:46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁶ who found favor with God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁶ who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁶ Who found grace (favor and spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and prayed that he might be allowed to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. [II Sam. 7:8-16; Ps. 132:1-5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁶ who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

Common English Bible

⁴⁶ God approved of David, who asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁶ who found grace before God and who asked that he might obtain a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁶ Who found grace before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Acts 7:46 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:21

David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me in place of your father and all his household, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord—I will dance before the Lord.

Psalm 132:11

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

Acts 13:22

When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

1 Samuel 13:14

but now your kingdom will not continue; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has appointed him to be ruler over his people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this very day and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”