44. “The Tent of Witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Mosheh to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,
45. which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Yehoshua into the land possessed by the gentiles, whom Elohim drove out before the face of our fathers until the days of Dawiḏ,
46. who found favour before Elohim and asked to find a dwelling for the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ,
47. but Shelomoh built Him a house.
48. “However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands, as the prophet says:
49. ‘The heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What house shall you build for Me? says יהוה, or what is the place of My rest?
50. ‘Has My hand not made all these?’