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Act 13:22 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

when		1Sa 12:25; 1Sa 13:13; 1Sa 15:11,23,26,28; 1Sa 16:1; 1Sa 28:16; 1Sa 31:6; 2Sa 7:15; 1Ch 10:13; Hsa 13:10,11
he raised		1Sa 16:1,13; 2Sa 2:4; 2Sa 5:3-5; 2Sa 7:8; 1Ch 28:4,5; Psa 2:6; Psa 78:70-72; Psa 89:19,20; etc.; Jer 33:21,26; Eze 34:23; Eze 37:24,25; Hsa 3:5
to whom		Act 15:8; Hbr 11:4,5
I have		Act 7:46; 1Sa 13:14; 1Ki 15:3,5

Correlating Passages

when

	1Sa 12:25	But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
	1Sa 13:13	And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
	1Sa 15:11	It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
	1Sa 15:23	For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.
	1Sa 15:26	And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
	1Sa 15:28	And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.
	1Sa 16:1	And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
	1Sa 28:16	Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
	1Sa 31:6	So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
	2Sa 7:15	But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took [it] from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
	1Ch 10:13	So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it];
	Hsa 13:10	I will be thy king: where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
	Hsa 13:11	I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took [him] away in my wrath.

he raised

	1Sa 16:1	And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
	1Sa 16:13	Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
	2Sa 2:4	And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of Jabeshgilead [were they] that buried Saul.
	2Sa 5:3	So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
	2Sa 5:4	David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign, [and] he reigned forty years.
	2Sa 5:5	In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
	2Sa 7:8	Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
	1Ch 28:4	Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah [to be] the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make [me] king over all Israel:
	1Ch 28:5	And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
	Psa 2:6	Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
	Psa 78:70	He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
	Psa 78:71	From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
	Psa 78:72	So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
	Psa 89:19	Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
	Psa 89:20	I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
	Jer 33:21	[Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
	Jer 33:26	Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
	Eze 34:23	And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
	Eze 37:24	And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
	Eze 37:25	And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.
	Hsa 3:5	Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

to whom

	Act 15:8	And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as [he did] unto us;
	Hbr 11:4	By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
	Hbr 11:5	By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

I have

	Act 7:46	Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
	1Sa 13:14	But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.
	1Ki 15:3	And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
	1Ki 15:5	Because David did [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any [thing] that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Scott, Thomas. "Acts 13:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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