Men, brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost spake before by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to them that took Jesus.

For David speaketh concerning him, I have seen the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right-hand, that I may not be moved.

Men and brethren, I may say to you freely of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is among us to this day.

For David is not ascended into the heavens; but he saith himself, The Lord said to my Lord,

Who saidst by the mouth of thy servant David, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

Which also our fathers having received, brought in with Joshua into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, till the days of David:

And having removed him, he raised up to them David for their king, to whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, who will do all my will.

And because he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spake thus, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

Now David, having served the will of God in his generation, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption.

And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written, After this I will return and build again the fallen tabernacle of David;