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,