Acts 13:16-23

16So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, he said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

17The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great and numerous during their stay [as foreigners] in the land of Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of there.

18For a period of about forty years He put up with their behavior in the wilderness.

19When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land [to our ancestors] as an inheritance—this took about four hundred and fifty years.

20After this, He gave them judges until the prophet Samuel.

21Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

22And when He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king: of him He testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart [conforming to My will and purposes], who will do all My will.’

23From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel a Savior, [in the person of] Jesus, according to His promise.