36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
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Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-41)Perga in Pamphylia was a noted place, especially for a temple there erected to the goddess Diana, yet nothing at all is related of what Paul and Barnabas did there, only that thither they came (Acts 13:13), and thence they departed , Acts 13:14. But the history of the apostles’ travels, as that of Christ’s, passes by many things worthy to have been recorded, because, if all had been written, the w…
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