Acts 13:22

Acts 13:22

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.’

23 ^aFrom this man’s seed, according ^bto the promise, God raised up for Israel ^ca Savior—Jesus—

24 ^aafter John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25 And as John was finishing his course, he said, ^a‘Who do you think I am? I am not He. But behold, ^bthere comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’

26 “Men and brethren, sons of the¹ family of Abraham, and ^athose among you who fear God, ^bto you the word of this salvation has been sent.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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When he had removed him (metasthsav auton). First aorist active participle of meqisthmi, old verb to transfer, to transpose (note force of meta). This verb occurs in Luke 16:4 by the unjust steward about his removal from office. Cf. I Samuel 15:16.

To be (eiv). As or for, Greek idiom like the Hebrew le, common in the LXX.

A man after my heart (andra kata thn kardian mou). The words quoted by Paul as a direct saying of God are a combination of Psalms 89:20-21; I Samuel 13:14 (the word of the Lord to Samuel about David). Knowling thinks that this free and rather loose quotation of the substance argues for the genuineness of the report of Paul's sermon. Hackett observes that the commendation of David is not absolute, but, as compared with the disobedient Saul, he was a man who did God's will in spite of the gross sin of which he repented (Psa. 51). Note "wills" (qelhmata), plural, of God.

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