Kisah Para Rasul 7:44

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Maka Kemah Kesaksian itu ada pada nenek moyang kita di padang belantara, sama seperti yang difirmankan Allah menurut firman-Nya kepada Musa, bahwa hendaklah diperbuatnya seperti teladan yang telah dilihatnya itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kemah Kesaksian ada pada nenek moyang kita di padang gurun, seperti yang diperintahkan Allah kepada Musa untuk membuatnya menurut contoh yang telah dilihatnya.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Kemah Kesaksian ada pada nenek moyang kita di padang gurun, seperti yang diperintahkan Allah kepada Musa untuk membuatnya menurut contoh yang telah dilihatnya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the tabernacle: Exodus 38:21, Numbers 1:50-53, Numbers 9:15, Numbers 10:11, Numbers 17:7, Numbers 17:8, Numbers 18:2, Joshua 18:1, 2 Chronicles 24:6

speaking: or, who spake

that he: Exodus 25:40, Exodus 26:30, 1 Chronicles 28:11, 1 Chronicles 28:19, Hebrews 8:2, Hebrews 8:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:16 - General Joshua 3:14 - bearing the ark 2 Samuel 7:6 - tent 1 Chronicles 17:5 - dwelt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "of Sinai"; there it was that the tabernacle was first ordered to be built, and there it was built, and set up; which was a sort of a portable temple, in which Jehovah took up his residence, and which was carried from place to place: of it, and its several parts and furniture, there is a large account in Exodus 25:1. It is sometimes called Ohel Moed, or "the tabernacle of the congregation", because there the people of Israel gathered together, and God met with them; and sometimes "the tabernacle of the testimony", or "witness", as here; Exodus 38:21 Numbers 1:50 because the law, called the tables of the testimony, and the testimony, it being a testification or declaration of the will of God, was put into an ark; which for that reason is called the ark of the testimony; and which ark was placed in the tabernacle; and hence that took the same name too. The Jewish writers say k, it is so called,

"because it was a testimony that the Shekinah dwelt in Israel'';

or as another l expresses it,

"it was a testimony to Israel that God had pardoned them concerning the affair of the calf, for, lo, his Shekinah dwelt among them.''

This tabernacle, in which was the testimony of the will of God, what he would have done, and how he would be worshipped, and which was a token of his presence, was among the Jewish fathers whilst they were in the wilderness; and is mentioned as an aggravation of their sin, that they should now, or afterwards, take up and carry the tabernacle of Moloch. The Alexandrian copy reads, "your fathers"; the sense is the same.

As he had appointed; that is, as God appointed, ordered, and commanded:

speaking unto Moses, Exodus 25:40

that he should make it according to the fashion he had seen; when in the Mount with God; Hebrews 8:5 for it was not a bare account of the tabernacle, and its vessels, which he hearing, might form an idea of in his mind; but there was a visible form represented to his eye, a pattern, exemplar, or archetype of the whole, according to which everything was to be made; which teaches us, that everything in matters of worship ought to be according to the rule which God has given, from which we should never swerve in the least.

k Baal Hatturim in Exod. xxxiii. 21. l Jarchi in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The tabernacle of witness - The “tent” or “tabernacle” which Moses was commanded to make. It was called a tabernacle of “witness,” or of “testimony,” because it was the visible witness or proof of God’s presence with them; the evidence that he to whom it was devoted was their protector and guide. The name is given either to the “tent,” to the two tables of stone, or to the ark; all of which were “witnesses,” or “evidences” of God’s relation to them as their Lawgiver and guide, Exodus 16:34; Exodus 25:16, Exodus 25:21; Exodus 27:21; Exodus 30:6, Exodus 30:36; Exodus 31:18, etc.; Numbers 1:50, Numbers 1:53. The two charges against Stephen were, that he had spoken blasphemy against Moses or his Law, and against the temple, Acts 6:13-14. In the previous part of this defense he had shown his respect for Moses and his Law. He now proceeds to show that he did not design to speak with disrespect of the temple, or the holy places of their worship. He therefore expresses his belief in the divine appointment of both the tabernacle Acts 7:44-46 and of the temple Acts 7:47.

According to the fashion ... - According to the pattern that was shown to him, by which it was to be made, Exodus 25:9, Exodus 25:40; Exodus 26:30. As God showed him “a pattern,” it proved that the tabernacle had his sanction. Against that Stephen did not intend to speak.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 44. Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness — That is, the tabernacle in which the two tables of stone written by the finger of God were laid up, as a testimony that he had delivered these laws to the people, and that they had promised to obey them. As one great design of St. Stephen was to show the Jews that they placed too much dependence on outward privileges, and had not used the law, the tabernacle, the temple, nor the temple service, for the purpose of their institution, he labours to bring them to a due sense of this, that conviction might lead to repentance and conversion. And he farther shows that God did not confine his worship to one place, or form. He was worshipped without any shrine in the times of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, c. He was worshipped with a tabernacle, or portable temple, in the wilderness. He was worshipped also in the fixed temple projected by David, but built by Solomon. He asserts farther that his infinite majesty cannot be confined to temples, made by human hands and where there is neither tabernacle nor temple, (in any part of his vast dominions,) he may be worshipped acceptably by the upright in heart. Thus he proves that neither tabernacle nor temple are essentially requisite for the true worship of the true God. Concerning the tabernacle to which St. Stephen here refers, the reader is requested to consult the notes, Exodus 25:8, c., and the subsequent chapters.

Speaking unto Moses — ο λαλων, Who spake, as in the margin signifying the angel of God who spake to Moses, or God himself. See Exodus 25:40.