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Acts 13:21
And, from that time, they asked for themselves a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years;
Acts 13:21 · Rotherham Emphasised Bible
Acts 13:21 in other translations
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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In context
18 And, for the time of about forty years, bare with their manners in the desert;
19 And, overthrowing seven nations in the land of Canaan, gave them their land as an inheritance—about four hundred and fifty years.
20 And, after these things, he gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And, from that time, they asked for themselves a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years;
22 And, setting him aside, raised up, David, unto them for king,—of whom he also said, bearing witness—I have found David, the son of Jesse,— [a man] according to my heart, who will do all my will.
23 From this man’s seed, hath God, according to promise, brought unto Israel, a saviour—Jesus:
24 John, beforehand proclaiming, before the face of his coming in, an immersion of repentance, unto all the people of Israel.
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