Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
The people's demand for a king was rebellion against God's own government, yet He turned their wickedness to purpose: through their unlawful desire came the tribe of Judah to the throne, and from Judah came Christ. God uses evil things well.
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Luke passes over Perga in silence, though Diana's temple stood there, because the whole world could not contain all that might be written. Paul and Barnabas went straight to the synagogue at Antioch, not to curry favor with magistrates, but to the Jews themselves, proving their true care for their souls. This was always the way: to show how the New Testament flows directly from the Old, which the Jews already held sacred.
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Commenting on Acts 13:14-41
And when he had removed him,.... Either by death, or rejected him from being king while he was living; Sa1 15:23 he raised up unto them David to be their king; who was of the tribe of Judah, and who was raised from a very mean condition, from keeping of sheep, to sit upon the throne of Israel: to whom also he gave testimony, and...