(7:44–50) Stephen recounts how God directed Moses to construct the tent of meeting, which the ancestors carried into the land they dispossessed under Joshua’s leadership (7:44–45). King David desired to locate a habitation for Yahweh, but Solomon built it (7:46–47). Yet, Stephen asserts that God does not dwell in human-made houses; God inhabits and creates all space (7:48–49). 7:44 While Israel was worshiping the idol they instructed Aaron to build in the wilderness in Moses’