Acts 13:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

When

He raised

To whom

Acts 15:8

Hebrews 11:4

I have

Acts 7:46

1 Samuel 13:14

1 Kings 15:3

Bible References

When

However, if you continue to do what is evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

Samuel said to Saul, “You have been foolish. You have not kept the command which the Lord your God gave you. It was at this time that the Lord would have permanently established your reign over Israel,

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” So Samuel became angry and cried out to the Lord all night.

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected a king from his sons.”

Samuel answered, “Since the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?

So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.

But My faithful love will never leave him as I removed it from Saul; I removed him from your way.

Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the Lord because he did not keep the Lord’s word. He even consulted a medium for guidance,

Where now is your king,

that he may save you in all your cities,
and the rulers

you demanded, saying,

“Give me a king and leaders”?

He raised

Then the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David: “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the Lord’s presence, and they anointed David king over Israel.

“Now this is what you are to say to My servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.

“Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s household to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s household, and from my father’s sons, He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

“I have consecrated My King
on Zion, My holy mountain.”

He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

then also My covenant with My servant David may be broken so that he will not have a son reigning on his throne, and the Levitical priests will not be My ministers.

I will appoint over them a single shepherd, My servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.

My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances, and keep My statutes and obey them.

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the Lord

and to His goodness in the last days.

To whom

And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us.

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

I have

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

but now your reign will not endure. The Lord has found a man loyal to Him,

and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not done what the Lord commanded.”

Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not completely devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.