‘Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, as God directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors. And it was there until the time of David,
who found favour with God and asked that he might find a dwelling-place for the house of Jacob.
But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says,
"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?
Did not my hand make all these things?"
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