Acts 13:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And when He had deposed him, He raised up David to be their king; of him He bore witness and said, I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart, who will do all My will and carry out My program fully. [I Sam. 13:14; Ps. 89:20; Isa. 44:28.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom also he bare witness and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.

Common English Bible

²² After God removed him, he raised up David to be their king. God testified concerning him, ‘“I have found” David, Jesse’s son, “a man who shares my desires.” Whatever my will is, he will do.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And having removed him, he raised up for them king David. And offering testimony about him, he said, 'I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man according to my own heart, who will accomplish all that I will.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.

Acts 13:22 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:4

Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the people of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”

2 Samuel 7:15

But I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 15:3

He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 15:5

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 10:13

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness; he was unfaithful to the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord; moreover, he had consulted a medium, seeking guidance,

1 Chronicles 2:12

Boaz of Obed, Obed of Jesse.

Psalm 2:6

“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Jeremiah 33:21

only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.

Jeremiah 33:26

would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them; he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

Hosea 3:5

Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,

Acts 15:8

And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us,

Acts 7:46

who found favor with God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not carried out my commands.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all night.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this very day and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

1 Samuel 16:13

Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. Samuel then set out and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?

1 Samuel 31:6

So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together on the same day.