44. "Long ago our people had with them in the desert the holy tent where the tablets of the covenant were kept. Moses had made the holy tent as God had commanded him. It was made like the pattern he had seen.
45. Our people received the tent from God. They brought it with them when they took the land of Canaan. God drove out the nations that were in their way. At that time Joshua was Israel's leader. "The tent remained in the land until David's time.
46. David was blessed by God. So David asked if he could build a house for the God of Jacob.
47. Instead, it was Solomon who built it for him.
48. "But the Most High God does not live in houses made by human hands. As God says through the prophet,