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Heaven is My throne
Isaiah declared that the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, because heaven is His throne and earth His footstool. Stephen quoted those words before the council in the last speech of his life.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
Direct quotation
New TestamentActs 7:49-50Open this recordRead the earlier witness
1This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? 2Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word. Read the later witness
49“ ‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be? 50Has not my hand made all these things?’ Why FaithGraph draws this line
Acts 7:49-50 quotes Isaiah 66:1-2.
Stephen closes his survey of the tabernacle and temple by quoting Isaiah that heaven is God's throne.
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