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Acts 13:21

“Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.”

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¹⁹And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

²⁰All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

²¹Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

²²After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

²³From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

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