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Acts 7:42

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

KJV

ἔστρεψεν δὲ ὁ θεὸς καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς λατρεύειν τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καθὼς γέγραπται ἐν βίβλῳ τῶν προφητῶν, μὴ σφάγια καὶ θυσίας προσηνέγκατέ μοι ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, οἶκος Ἰσραήλ;

Greek NT

Convertit autem Deus, et tradidit eos servire militiæ cæli, sicut scriptum est in libro prophetarum : Numquid victimas et hostias obtulistis mihi annis quadraginta in deserto, domus Israël ?

Vulgate

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

ASV

And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

25 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βίβλος
biblos
noun · 10×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
θυσία
thusia
noun · 28×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
λατρεύω
latreuo
verb · 21×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
οὐρανός
ouranos
noun · 274×
παραδίδωμι
paradidomi
verb · 119×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
στρέφω
strepho
verb · 22×
στρατιά
stratia
noun · 3×
σφάγιον
sphagion
noun · 1×
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
adjective · 22×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρημος
eremos
adjective · 48×
ἔτος
etos
noun · 49×
Ἰσραήλ
israel
noun · 68×
o
article · 19778×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Amos 5:25 · adapted
    "Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?"
    Amos: did you offer me sacrifices in the wilderness — Stephen's speech

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
  • 2Kgs 21:3 — For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, an
  • 2Thess 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
  • Amos 2:10 — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  • Amos 5:25 — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  • Amos 5:25 — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  • Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
  • Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
  • Deut 12:8 — Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
  • Deut 17:3 — And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
  • Ezek 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
  • Ezek 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
  • Ezek 14:7 — For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniqu
  • Ezek 20:25 — Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
  • Ezek 20:39 — As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, an
  • Heb 3:9 — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
  • Heb 3:15 — While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
  • Hos 4:17 — Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
  • Isa 43:23 — Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
  • Isa 63:10 — But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
  • Isa 66:4 — I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in
  • Jer 8:2 — And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and wh
  • Jer 19:13 — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of hea
  • Job 31:26 — If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
  • Josh 24:20 — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
  • Josh 24:20 — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
  • Ps 81:11 — But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
  • Ps 81:12 — So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
  • Ps 95:10 — Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
  • Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: