16. And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.
17. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,
18. and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
19. And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
20. And after these things he gave them judges till Samuel the prophet, to the end of about four hundred and fifty years.
21. And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.