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All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
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Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
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After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’
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“From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised.