19 And after[a] destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people[b] as an inheritance. 20 This took[c] about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them[d] judges until Samuel the prophet. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:19 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“destroying”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Acts 13:19 The words “to his people” are supplied as a clarification of who received the land
  3. Acts 13:20 The words “This took” are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style
  4. Acts 13:20 Here the indirect object “them” is not in the Greek text but is implied