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17 The God of this people Israel achose our fathers, and exalted the people bwhen they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with2 an uplifted arm He cbrought them out of it.  
18 Now afor a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.  
19 And when He had destroyed aseven nations in the land of Canaan, bHe distributed their land to them by allotment.  
20 “After that aHe gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, buntil Samuel the prophet.  
21 aAnd afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them bSaul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.  
22 And awhen He had removed him, bHe raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, c‘I have found David the son of Jesse, da man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’  
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Acts 13:19

When he had destroyed (kaqelwn). Second aorist active participle of kaqairew, to tear down, old verb.

He gave them for an inheritance (kateklhronomhsen). First aorist active indicative of the double compound verb kata-klhro-nomew, late verb in LXX (Numbers 34:18; Deuteronomy 3:28; Joshua 14:1) and only here in the N.T., to distribute by lot, to distribute as an inheritance. This is the correct reading and not kateklhrodothsen from kataklhrodotew of the Textus Receptus. These two verbs were confused in the MSS. of the LXX as well as here.

For about four hundred and fifty years (wv etesin tetrakosioiv kai penthkonta). Associative instrumental case with an expression of time as in Acts 8:11; Luke 8:29 (Robertson, Grammar, p. 527). The oldest MSS. (Aleph A B C Vg Sah Boh) place these figures before "after these things" and so in verse Acts 13:19. This is the true reading and is in agreement with the notation in I Kings 6:1. The difficulty found in the Textus Receptus (King James Version) thus disappears with the true text. The four hundred and fifty years runs therefore from the birth of Isaac to the actual conquest of Canaan and does not cover the period of the Judges. See on Acts 7:6.




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