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:
49 ‘The heavens are my throne,the earth is my footstool.What kind of house can you build for me?says the Lord,or what is to be my resting place?
50 Did not my hand make all these things?’