44 »Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 »Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;
46 »Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 »But Solomon built him a house.
48 The most High does not dwell in houses made with hands as the prophet says,
49 »Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build me? Said Jehovah God. What is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1)
50 »Did my hand make all these things?