42 Then God turned and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offeringsfor forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
43 No, you took up the tent of Molochand the star of (your) god Rephan,the images that you made to worship.So I shall take you into exile beyond Babylon.’
44 “Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the desert just as the One who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
45 Our ancestors who inherited it brought it with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from before our ancestors, up to the time of David,
46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built a house for him.
48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: