17. “The Elohim of this people Yisra’ĕl did choose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourning in the land of Mitsrayim, and with a high arm He brought them out of it.
18. “Now for a time of about forty years He sustained them in the wilderness.
19. “And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena‘an, He gave their land to them as an inheritance.
20. “And after that He gave judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Shemu’ĕl the prophet.
21. “But then they asked for a sovereign, and Elohim gave them Sha’ul the son of Qish, a man of the tribe of Binyamin, for forty years.
22. “And having removed him, He raised up for them Dawiḏ as sovereign, to whom also He gave witness and said, ‘I have found Dawiḏ the son of Yishai, a man after My own heart, who shall do all My desires.’
23. “From this one’s seed, according to the promise, Elohim raised up for Yisra’ĕl a Saviour, יהושע,
24. after Yoḥanan had first proclaimed the immersion of repentance to all the people of Yisra’ĕl, before His coming.
25. “And as Yoḥanan was completing his mission, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not He. But see, there comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’