20. All this took about 450 years.“After that, God gave them judges to rule until the time of Samuel the prophet.
21. Then the people begged for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.
22. But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.’
23. “And it is one of King David’s descendants, Jesus, who is God’s promised Savior of Israel!
24. Before he came, John the Baptist preached that all the people of Israel needed to repent of their sins and turn to God and be baptized.