Acts 7:44-46

Amplified Bible

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God directed Moses to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.^{(A) 45} Our fathers also brought it in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the ^[a]nations whom God drove out before our fathers, [and so it remained here] until the time of David,^{(B) 46} who found favor (grace, spiritual blessing) in the sight of God and asked that he might [be allowed to] find a dwelling place for the ^[b]God of Jacob.^(C)