"Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.  And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.  David found favor in God's sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.  But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.  However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:  Heaven is My throne, and earth is the footstool of my feet; What kind of house will you build for Me? says the Lord, or what place is there for My repose?  Was it not My hand which made all these things?"

There is a reason that Stephen is attacking the idea of the temple.

In this part of Jewish history, Stephen focuses on the building of the temple.  How it was Davis's concern, but Solomon was the one who was blessed to build it.  All the while, these men knew that it was not REALLY a house for God - it could not contain Him!

But the Jewish religious leaders thought differently.  They thought that without the temple, God could not work.  The temple was the center of their worship - not God.

Stephen wanted to bring the people of God back to a realization of God.  God is bigger than anything.  God deserves our praise.  Nothing else ever will.