Acts 15:16
Good News Translation
'After this I will return, says the Lord, and restore the kingdom of David. I will rebuild its ruins and make it strong again.

New Revised Standard Version
‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the dwelling of David, which has fallen; from its ruins I will rebuild it, and I will set it up,

Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord, will return and rebuild David's fallen house. I will build it from its ruins and set it up again.

New American Bible
‘After this I shall return and rebuild the fallen hut of David; from its ruins I shall rebuild it and raise it up again,

Douay-Rheims Bible
After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. And I will set it up:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. And I will set it up:

this.

Amos 9:11,12 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us. . . .

build again the tabernacle.

2 Samuel 7:11-16 From the day that I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thy enemies. And the Lord foretelleth to thee, that the Lord will make thee a house. . . .

1 Kings 12:16 Then the people, seeing that the king would not hearken to them, answered him, saying: What portion have we in David? or what inheritance in the son of Isai? Go home to thy dwellings, O Israel: now, David, look to thy own house. So Israel departed to their dwellings.

Psalm 89:35-49 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: . . .

Isaiah 9:6,7 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. . . .

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them? . . .

Ezekiel 17:22-24 Thus saith the Lord God: I myself will take of the marrow of the high cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a tender twig from the top of the branches thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain high and eminent. . . .

Zechariah 13:8 And there shall be in all the earth, saith the Lord, two parts in it shall be scattered, and shall perish: but the third part shall be left therein.

Matthew 1:20-25 But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. . . .

Luke 1:31-33,69,70 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. . . .

Context
The Council at Jerusalem
15And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written: 16After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. And I will set it up: 17That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 12:15
And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man into his land.

Amos 9:11
All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Acts 15:15
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