"Brothers, that Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit uttered by the mouth of David in the former times about Judas who became the guide to those who arrested Jesus;

For David says of Him: 'I always kept my eyes upon the Lord, for He is at my right hand, so that I may not be removed.

"Brothers, I may confidently say to you about the patriarch David, that he died and was buried, and that his grave is here among us to this very day.

For David did not go up to heaven, but he himself says: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

who spoke thus through the Holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your servant: 'Why did the heathen rage, and the peoples make vain designs?

This tent our forefathers brought in and passed on when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations which God drove out before them, and it remained until the time of David.

Then He deposed him and raised up for them David to be king, to whom He bore this testimony, 'I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all that my will requires.'

Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'

For David, after having served God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid among his forefathers, and so he did experience decay,

'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen dwelling; I will rebuild its ruins and set it up again,