20 This all took about 450 years. After this, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.(A) 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.(B) 22 After removing him,(C) he raised up David as their king and testified about him, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart,[a](D) who will carry out all my will.’

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Footnotes

  1. 13:22 1Sm 13:14; Ps 89:20

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