40. saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
41. They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
42. But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrificesforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43. You took up the tabernacle of Moloch,the star of your god Rephan,the figures which you made to worship.I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
44. “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
45. which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,
46. who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
47. But Solomon built him a house.
48. However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
49. ‘heaven is my throne,and the earth a footstool for my feet.What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord.‘Or what is the place of my rest?
50. Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
51. “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.