16. Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak:“Fellow-Israelites and all Gentiles here who worship God: hear me!
17. The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made the people a great nation during the time they lived as foreigners in Egypt. God brought them out of Egypt by his great power,
18. and for forty years he endured them in the desert.
19. He destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan and made his people the owners of the land.
20. All this took about 450 years.“After this he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.
21. And when they asked for a king, God gave them Saul son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin, to be their king for forty years.