Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the desert, made as God directed when he spoke to Moses, following the pattern he had seen.
In context
42So God turned away and handed them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘House of Israel, was it to me that you brought victims and sacrifices for forty years in the desert? 43You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made in order to worship them. So I will deport you beyond Babylon.’ 44Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the desert, made as God directed when he spoke to Moses, following the pattern he had seen. 45Our ancestors received it in turn and brought it in with Joshua when they took possession of the nations that God drove out before them; and so it was until the days of David. 46David found favor with God and asked to provide a dwelling for the house of Jacob.
