21 And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And after[a] removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.’[b] 23 From the descendants of this man, according to his promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:22 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“removing”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 13:22 A quotation from 1 Sam 13:14