Acts 13:22

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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

But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king will be swept away.”

Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the Lord all night.

Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”

Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has departed from you and has become your adversary?

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

but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the Lord, because of the word of the Lord which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry of it,

Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

He raised

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

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron; then they anointed David king over Israel.

“Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

Yet, the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For He has chosen Judah to be a leader; and in the house of Judah, my father’s house, and among the sons of my father He took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;

Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones,

And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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

“Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself and be their shepherd.

“My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

To whom

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

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks.

I have

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

But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.