16. So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, he said, “Israelite men, and those who fear God, listen!
17. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
18. And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.
19. And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.
20. This took about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
21. And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22. And after removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.’
23. From the descendants of this man, according to his promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.