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Having set sail from Paphos, Sha'ul and his companions arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. There Yochanan left them and returned to Yerushalayim,
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but the others went on from Perga to Pisidian Antioch, and on Shabbat they went into the synagogue and sat down.
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After the reading from the Torah and from the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent them a message, "Brothers, if any of you has a word of exhortation for the people, speak!"
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So Sha'ul stood, motioned with his hand, and said: "Men of Isra'el and God-fearers, listen!
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The God of this people Isra'el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land.
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For some forty yearsm he took care of them in the desert,
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and after he had destroyed seven nationsn in the land of Kena'an he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.
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All this took about 450 years. After that, he gave them judges, o down to the prophet Sh'mu'el.
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Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Sha'ul Ben-Kish, a man from the tribe of Binyamin. After forty years,
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God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, 'I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.'
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"In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra'el from this man's descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.