Kisah Para Rasul 7:42

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka Allah pun berpalinglah sambil membiarkan mereka itu akan berbakti kepada segala tentara langit, seperti yang tersurat di dalam kitab nabi-nabi: Hai Isi rumah Israel, pernahkah kamu mempersembahkan kepada-Ku ini korban sembelihan dan persembahan empat puluh tahun lamanya di padang belantara?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka berpalinglah Allah dari mereka dan membiarkan mereka beribadah kepada bala tentara langit, seperti yang tertulis dalam kitab nabi-nabi: Apakah kamu mempersembahkan kepada-Ku korban sembelihan dan persembahan selama empat puluh tahun di padang gurun itu, hai kaum Israel?

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Maka berpalinglah Allah dari mereka dan membiarkan mereka beribadah kepada bala tentara langit, seperti yang tertulis dalam kitab nabi-nabi: Apakah kamu mempersembahkan kepada-Ku korban sembelihan dan persembahan selama empat puluh tahun di padang gurun itu, hai kaum Israel?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and gave: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Isaiah 66:4, Ezekiel 14:7-10, Ezekiel 20:25, Ezekiel 20:39, Hosea 4:17, Romans 1:24-28, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

the host: Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 21:3, Job 31:26-28, Jeremiah 19:13, Ezekiel 8:16

O ye: Amos 5:25, Amos 5:26

have ye: Isaiah 43:23

of forty: Psalms 95:10, Hebrews 3:9, Hebrews 3:15-17

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - host Exodus 32:6 - sat down Deuteronomy 4:28 - ye shall Deuteronomy 12:8 - every man Joshua 24:20 - he will turn 2 Chronicles 33:3 - the host Jeremiah 8:2 - and all Amos 2:10 - and led Luke 4:17 - the book

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then God turned,.... Away from them, withdrew his presence, and his favours from them:

and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; not angels, but the sun, moon, and stars; for since they liked not to retain the knowledge and worship of the true God, who made the heavens, and the earth, God in righteous judgment, in a judicial way, gave them up to a reprobate mind, to commit all the idolatry of the Gentiles, as a punishment of their former sin in making and worshipping the calf:

as it is written in the book of the prophets; of the twelve lesser prophets, which were all in one book; and which, as the Jews say e, were put together, that a book of them might not be lost through the smallness of it; among which Amos stands, a passage in whose prophecy is here referred to; namely, in Amos 5:25 "O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness"; no; they offered to devils, and not to God, Deuteronomy 32:17 and though there were some few sacrifices offered up; yet since they were not frequently offered, nor freely, and with all the heart, and with faith, and without hypocrisy, they were looked upon by God as if they were not offered at all.

e Kimchi praefat. ad Hoseam.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then God turned - That is, turned away from them; abandoned them to their own desires.

The host of heaven - The stars, or heavenly bodies. The word “host” means “armies.” It is applied to the heavenly bodies because they are very numerous, and appear to be “marshalled” or arrayed in military order. It is from this that God is called Yahweh “of hosts,” as being the ruler of these well-arranged heavenly bodies. See the notes on Isaiah 1:9. The proof that they did this Stephen proceeds to allege by a question from the prophets.

In the book of the prophets - Amos 5:25-26. The twelve minor prophets were commonly written in one volume, and were called the Book of the Prophets; that is, the book containing these several prophecies, Daniel, Hosea, Micah, etc. They were small “tracts” separately, and were bound up together to preserve them from being lost. This passage is not quoted literally; it is evidently made from memory; and though in its main spirit it coincides with the passage in Amos, yet in some important respects it varies from it.

O ye house of Israel - Ye people of Israel.

Have ye offered ... - That is, ye have not offered. The interrogative form is often an emphatic way of saying that the thing had “not” been done. But it is certain that the Jews did offer sacrifices to God in the wilderness, though it is also certain that they did not do it with a pure and upright heart. They kept up the form of worship generally, but they frequently forsook God, and offered worship to idols. through the continuous space of forty years they did “not” honor God, but often departed from him, and worshipped idols.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. Then God turned, and gave them up, c.] He left them to themselves, and then they deified and worshipped the sun, moon, planets, and principal stars.

In the book of the prophets — As this quotation is found in Amos, Amos 5:25, by the book of the prophets is meant the twelve minor prophets, which, in the ancient Jewish division of the sacred writings, formed only one book.

Have ye offered to me slain beasts — It is certain that the Israelites did offer various sacrifices to God, while in the wilderness and it is as certain that they scarcely ever did it with an upright heart. They were idolatrous, either in heart or act, in almost all their religious services; these were therefore so very imperfect that they were counted for nothing in the sight of God; for this seems to be strongly implied in the question here asked, Have ye offered to ME (exclusively and with an upright heart) slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years? On the contrary, these forty years were little else than a tissue of rebellion and idolatry.