But Solomon, etc. Built the temple. David was not permitted to do it because he had been a man of war, 1 Chronicles 22:8. Davi…

“But it was Solomon,” Stephen tersely says, “who built the house for him.” This brevity shows something of Stephen’s pejorative attitude toward the…

Solomon built. Stephen seems to criticize Solomon indirectly in this place, as if Solomon did not consider the nature of God in building t…

But Solomon built him an house .

] Though David was so set upon it, and made such large provisions for it, he was …

Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him.

It wa…