Stephen's Speech

Acts 7

1 Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

2 And he said, a "Brethren and fathers, listen: The b God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in c Haran, 3 "and said to him, d 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.' 1 4 "Then e he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was f dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell. 5 "And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, g He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him. 6 "But God spoke in this way: h that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into i bondage and oppress them four hundred years. 7 j 'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will k judge,' 2 said God, l 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.' 3 8 m "Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; n and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; o and Isaac begot Jacob, and p Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

9 q "And the patriarchs, becoming envious, r sold Joseph into Egypt. s But God was with him 10 "and delivered him out of all his troubles, t and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 u "Now a famine and great 4 trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 v "But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 13 "And the w second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to the Pharaoh. 14 x "Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and y all his relatives to him, 5 seventy-five people. 15 z "So Jacob went down to Egypt; a and he died, he and our fathers. 16 "And b they were carried back to Shechem and laid in c the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

17 "But when d the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, e the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 "till another king f arose who did not know Joseph. 19 "This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, g making them expose their babies, so that they might not live. 20 h "At this time Moses was born, and i was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months. 21 "But j when he was set out, k Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. 22 "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was l mighty in words and deeds.

23 m "Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. 24 "And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. 25 "For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. 26 "And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?' 27 "But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, n 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 'Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?' 6 29 o "Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he p had two sons.

30 q "And when forty years had passed, an Angel 7 of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. 31 "When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him, 32 "saying, r 'I am the God of your fathers - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' 8 And Moses trembled and dared not look. 33 s 'Then the LORD said to him, "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. 34 "I have surely t seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will u send you to Egypt." ' 9

35 "This Moses whom they rejected, saying, v 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' 10 is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer w by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 x "He brought them out, after he had y shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, z and in the Red Sea, a and in the wilderness forty years. 37 "This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 11 b 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. c Him 12 you shall hear.' 38 d "This is he who was in the 13 congregation in the wilderness with e the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, f the one who received the living g oracles 14 to give to us, 39 "whom our fathers h would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, 40 i "saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' 15 41 j "And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and k rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 "Then l God turned and gave them up to worship m the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
n 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel? 43 You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
And the star of your god Remphan,
Images which you made to worship;
And o I will carry you away beyond Babylon.' 16

44 "Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses p to make it according to the pattern that he had seen, 45 q "which our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought with Joshua into the land possessed by the Gentiles, r whom God drove out before the face of our fathers until the s days of David, 46 t "who found favor before God and u asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob. 47 v "But Solomon built Him a house. 48 "However, w the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:

49 'Heaven x is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the LORD,
Or what is the place of My rest? 50 Has My hand not y made all these things?' 17

51 "You z stiff-necked 18 and a uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 b "Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of c the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 d "who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it."

  1. Cross References
    Acts 22:1
    "Brethren and fathers, hear my defense before you now."
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 29:3
    The voice of the LORD is over the waters; The God of glory thunders; The LORD is over many waters.
    1 Corinthians 2:8
    Which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 11:31
    And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
    Genesis 11:32
    So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 12:1
    Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 11:31
    And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.
    Genesis 15:7
    Then He said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.
    Hebrews 11:8 - 10
    By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 11:32
    So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 12:7
    Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To y...
    Genesis 13:15
    For all the land which you see I give to you an...
    Genesis 15:3
    Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no of...
    Genesis 15:18
    On the same day the LORD made a covenant with A...
    Genesis 17:8
    "Also I give to you and your descendants after ...
    Genesis 26:3
    Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and ...
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 15:13
    Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
    Genesis 15:14
    And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
    Genesis 15:16
    "But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
    Genesis 47:11
    And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
    Genesis 47:12
    Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with bread, according to the number in their families.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 1:8 - 14
    Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
    Exodus 12:40
    Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
    Exodus 12:41
    And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years - on that very same day - it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
    Galatians 3:17
    And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 15:14
    And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
  11. Cross References
    Exodus 14:13 - 31
    And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.
  12. Cross References
    Exodus 3:12
    So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
    Joshua 3:1 - 17
    Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and they set out from Acacia Grove and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they crossed over.
  13. Cross References
    Genesis 17:9 - 14
    And God said to Abraham: "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 21:1 - 5
    And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 25:21 - 26
    Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 29:31
    When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
    Genesis 30:24
    So she called his name Joseph, and said, "The LORD shall add to me another son.
    Genesis 35:18
    And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name BenOni; but his father called him Benjamin.
    Genesis 35:22 - 26
    And it happened, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard about it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
  17. Cross References
    Genesis 37:4
    But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
    Genesis 37:11
    And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
    Genesis 37:28
    Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
    Psalms 105:17
    He sent a man before them - Joseph - who was sold as a slave.
  18. Cross References
    Genesis 37:28
    Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 39:2
    The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
    Genesis 39:21
    But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
    Genesis 39:23
    The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority, because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made it prosper.
  20. Cross References
    Genesis 41:38 - 44
    And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 41:54
    And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
    Genesis 42:5
    And the sons of Israel went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  22. Cross References
    Genesis 42:1
    When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?
    Genesis 42:2
    And he said, "Indeed I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down to that place and buy for us there, that we may live and not die.
  23. Cross References
    Genesis 45:4
    And Joseph said to his brothers, "Please come near to me." So they came near. Then he said: "I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
    Genesis 45:16
    Now the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." So it pleased Pharaoh and his servants well.
  24. Cross References
    Genesis 45:9
    Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph: "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not tarry.
    Genesis 45:27
    But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
  25. Cross References
    Genesis 46:26
    All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.
    Genesis 46:27
    And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.
    Deuteronomy 10:22
    Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.
  26. Cross References
    Genesis 46:1 - 7
    So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
  27. Cross References
    Genesis 49:33
    And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.
    Exodus 1:6
    And Joseph died, all his brothers, and all that generation.
  28. Cross References
    Genesis 50:13
    For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.
    Exodus 13:19
    And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.
    Joshua 24:32
    The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.
  29. Cross References
    Genesis 23:16
    And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out the silver for Ephron which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, currency of the merchants.
  30. Cross References
    Genesis 15:13
    Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
    Exodus 2:23 - 25
    Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
    Acts 7:6
    But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years.
    Acts 7:7
    'And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.'
  31. Cross References
    Exodus 1:7 - 9
    But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
    Psalms 105:24
    He increased His people greatly, And made them stronger than their enemies.
    Psalms 105:25
    He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.
  32. Cross References
    Exodus 1:8
    Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
  33. Cross References
    Exodus 1:22
    So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.
  34. Cross References
    Exodus 2:1
    And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi.
    Exodus 2:2
    So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.
  35. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:23
    By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king's command.
  36. Cross References
    Exodus 2:3
    But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
    Exodus 2:4
    And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
  37. Cross References
    Exodus 2:5 - 10
    Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it.
  38. Cross References
    Luke 24:19
    And He said to them, "What things?" So they said to Him, "The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people.
  39. Cross References
    Exodus 2:11
    Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
    Exodus 2:12
    So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
    Hebrews 11:24 - 26
    By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
  40. Cross References
    Exodus 2:14
    Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!
    Luke 12:14
    But He said to him, "Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?
    Acts 7:35
    This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  41. Cross References
    Hebrews 11:27
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
  42. Cross References
    Exodus 2:15
    When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
    Exodus 2:21
    Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.
    Exodus 2:22
    And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land.
    Exodus 4:20
    Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
    Exodus 18:3
    With her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom (for he said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land")
  43. Cross References
    Exodus 3:1 - 10
    Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
    Isaiah 63:9
    In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.
  44. Cross References
    Exodus 3:6
    Moreover He said, "I am the God of your father - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.
    Exodus 3:15
    Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.
    Matthew 22:32
    'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
    Hebrews 11:16
    But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  45. Cross References
    Exodus 3:5
    Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
    Exodus 3:7
    And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
    Exodus 3:8
    So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
    Exodus 3:10
    "Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
  46. Cross References
    Exodus 2:24
    So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
    Exodus 2:25
    And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
  47. Cross References
    Psalms 105:26
    He sent Moses His servant, And Aaron whom He had chosen.
  48. Cross References
    Exodus 2:14
    Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!
    Acts 7:27
    But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
  49. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
  50. Cross References
    Exodus 12:41
    And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years - on that very same day - it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
    Exodus 33:1
    Then the LORD said to Moses, "Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your descendants I will give it.
    Deuteronomy 6:21
    Then you shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
    Deuteronomy 6:23
    Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.
    Hebrews 8:9
    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
  51. Cross References
    Exodus 7:8
    Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying.
    Exodus 7:9
    "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Show a miracle for yourselves,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent.'"
    Deuteronomy 6:22
    And the LORD showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household.
    Psalms 105:27
    They performed His signs among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.
    John 4:48
    Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.
  52. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
  53. Cross References
    Exodus 16:1
    And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congr...
    Exodus 16:35
    And the children of Israel ate manna forty year...
    Numbers 14:33
    And your sons shall be shepherds in the wildern...
    Psalms 95:8 - 10
    Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,...
    Acts 7:42
    Then God turned and gave them up to worship the...
    Acts 13:18
    Now for a time of about forty years He put up w...
    Hebrews 3:8
    Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, ...
  54. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:15
    The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear.
    Deuteronomy 18:18
    I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
    Deuteronomy 18:19
    And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.
    Acts 3:22
    For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.
  55. Cross References
    Matthew 17:5
    While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!
  56. Cross References
    Exodus 19:3
    And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
  57. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:9
    In all their affliction He was afflicted, And the Angel of His Presence saved them; In His love and in His pity He redeemed them; And He bore them and carried them All the days of old.
    Galatians 3:19
    What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
    Hebrews 2:2
    For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward.
  58. Cross References
    Exodus 21:1
    Now these are the judgments which you shall set before them:
    Deuteronomy 5:27
    'You go near and hear all that the LORD our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.'
    John 1:17
    For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  59. Cross References
    Romans 3:2
    Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.
    Hebrews 5:12
    For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
    1 Peter 4:11
    If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  60. Cross References
    Psalms 95:8 - 11
    Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.
  61. Cross References
    Exodus 32:1
    Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.
    Exodus 32:23
    "For they said to me, 'Make us gods that shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
  62. Cross References
    Exodus 32:2 - 4
    And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.
    Deuteronomy 9:16
    And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God - had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the LORD had commanded you.
    Psalms 106:19
    They made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped the molded image.
  63. Cross References
    Exodus 32:6
    Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
    Exodus 32:18
    But he said: " It is not the noise of the shout of victory, Nor the noise of the cry of defeat, But the sound of singing I hear.
    Exodus 32:19
    So it was, as soon as he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.
  64. Cross References
    Psalms 81:12
    So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.
    2 Thessalonians 2:11
    And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.
  65. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
    2 Kings 21:3
    For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  66. Cross References
    Amos 5:25 - 27
    Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  67. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:11 - 21
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
    Jeremiah 25:9 - 12
    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  68. Cross References
    Exodus 25:40
    And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
    Hebrews 8:5
    Who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  69. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:49
    Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel as a possession.
    Joshua 3:14
    So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people.
    Joshua 18:1
    Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.
    Joshua 23:9
    For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.
  70. Cross References
    Nehemiah 9:24
    So the people went in And possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, The Canaanites, And gave them into their hands, With their kings And the people of the land, That they might do with them as they wished.
    Psalms 44:2
    You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
  71. Cross References
    2 Samuel 6:2 - 15
    And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the LORD of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim.
  72. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:1 - 13
    Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around.
    1 Kings 8:17
    Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
  73. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 22:7
    And David said to Solomon: "My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.
    Psalms 132:4
    I will not give sleep to my eyes Or slumber to my eyelids.
    Psalms 132:5
    Until I find a place for the LORD, A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.
  74. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:1 - 38
    And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
    1 Kings 8:20
    So the LORD has fulfilled His word which He spoke; and I have filled the position of my father David, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised; and I have built a temple for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
    1 Kings 8:21
    "And there I have made a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."
    2 Chronicles 3:1 - 17
    Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  75. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:27
    But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
    2 Chronicles 2:6
    But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
    Acts 17:24
    God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
  76. Cross References
    Isaiah 66:1
    Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest?
    Isaiah 66:2
    For all those things My hand has made, And all those things exist," Says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.
    Matthew 5:34
    But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God's throne.
  77. Cross References
    Psalms 102:25
    Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
  78. Cross References
    Exodus 32:9
    And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!
    Isaiah 6:10
    "Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed."
  79. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:41
    And that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt -
  80. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:16
    But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.
    Matthew 21:35
    And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
    Matthew 23:35
    That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
    1 Thessalonians 2:15
    Who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men.
  81. Cross References
    Acts 3:14
    But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
    Acts 22:14
    Then he said, 'The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth.
    1 John 2:1
    My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
  82. Cross References
    Exodus 20:1
    And God spoke all these words, saying:
    Deuteronomy 33:2
    And he said: "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came with ten thousands of saints; From His right hand Came a fiery law for them.
    Acts 7:38
    This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us.
    Galatians 3:19
    What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.
    Hebrews 2:2
    For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward.
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