Acts 7:42

7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over122 to worship the host123 of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices124 forty years in the wilderness, was it,125 house of Israel?

122	sn The expression and gave them over suggests similarities to the judgment on the nations described by Paul in Rom 1:18–32.
123	tn Or “stars.” sn To worship the hosts of heaven. Their action violated Deut 4:19; 17:2–5. See Ps 106:36–43.
124	tn The two terms for sacrifices “semantically reinforce one another and are here combined essentially for emphasis” (L&N 53.20).
125	tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question, “was it?”