44 The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, as he had appointed, who spoke to Moses to make it according to the model which he had seen:

45 which, also, our fathers receiving, brought in with Joshua into the possession of the heathen; whom God drove out from before the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

46 who found favor before God, and made it his petition to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

47 But Solomon built him a house.

48 Yet the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands: as says the prophet:

49 «Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what house will you build for me, says the Lord;»

50 or, what is the place of my rest? Has not my hand made all these things?