29Men 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.
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For 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:
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. …
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-36)We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this ?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked; for he begins with the notice of that (Acts 2:15), and addresses his discourse (Acts…
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