Acts 13:21-22

13:21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled ¹  forty years. 13:22 After removing him, God ²  raised up ³  David their king. He testified about him: ⁴  ‘I have found David ⁵  the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, ⁶  who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’ ⁷ 

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¹ tn The words “who ruled” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. They have been supplied as a clarification for the English reader. See Josephus, Ant. 6.14.9 (6.378).

² tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ sn The expression raised up refers here to making someone king. There is a wordplay here: “raising up” refers to bringing someone onto the scene of history, but it echoes with the parallel to Jesus’ resurrection.

⁴ tn Grk “about whom.” The relative pronoun (“whom”) was replaced by the pronoun “him” and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek. The verb εἶπεν (eipen) has not been translated (literally “he said testifying”) because it is redundant when combined with the participle μαρτυρήσας (marturhsa", “testifying”). Instead the construction of verb plus participle has been translated as a single English verb (“testified”).

⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 89:20.

⁶ sn A quotation from 1 Sam 13:14.

⁷ tn Or “who will perform all my will,” “who will carry out all my wishes.”