⁷ again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

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⁷ Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

¹⁵ As it is said,

²⁵ And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: ^(A)“The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

²⁰ All this took about 450 years. And after that ^(A)he gave them judges until ^(B)Samuel the prophet. ²¹ Then ^(C)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul ^(D)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²² And ^(E)when he had removed him, ^(F)he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ^(G)‘I have found in David the son of Jesse ^(H)a man after my heart, ^(I)who will do all my will.’ ^23 (J)Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel ^(K)a Savior, Jesus, ^(L)as he promised.

³¹ he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that ^(A)he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

²⁹ “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about ^(A)the patriarch David ^(B)that he both died and ^(C)was buried, and ^(D)his tomb is with us to this day.

⁴² For David himself says in the Book of Psalms,