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.
22. After removing him, God made David their king. This is what God said about him: ‘I have found that David son of Jesse is the kind of man I like, a man who will do all I want him to do.’
23. It was Jesus, a descendant of David, whom God made the Saviour of the people of Israel, as he had promised.