Acts 7:46

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

who found favor in God’s sight and asked for permission to build a [special] house for the God of Jacob’s [descendants] to live in.

Cross References

Acts 13:22

And when God removed him [from the throne of Israel] He raised up David to be their king. God said about him, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man close to my heart [i.e., whom I loved very much] and he will do all that I want him to.’