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20 All this took about 450 years. After that, he gave them judges[a] until the time of Samuel the prophet.

21 “Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 After removing him, he raised up David as their king. God testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart. He will do all that I want him to do.’[b]

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  1. Acts 13:20 Some witnesses to the text read After that he gave them judges for about 450 years.
  2. Acts 13:22 1 Samuel 13:14