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Text -- Acts 13:21 (NET)

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13:21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Benjamin the tribe of Benjamin of Israel
 · Kish the father of King Saul,son of Abiel of Benjamin; father of Saul,son of Jeiel of Benjamin; uncle of Kish the father of Saul,second son of Mahli (Merari Levi); recognized by King David as the only son through whom Mahli's clan was built,son of Abdi; one of the Levites of Merari that King Hezekiah assigned to supervise the cleansing of the temple,a man who was an ancestor of Mordecai; the father of Shimei
 · Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi


Dictionary Themes and Topics: THESSALONIANS, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE | Synagogue | Preaching | Paul | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 4 | PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 3 | NUMBER | Minister | MACEDONIA | Law | Kish | GALATIANS, EPISTLE TO THE | EZEKIEL, 1 | CIS | CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | Barnabas | Antioch | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE | ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 1-7 | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Act 13:21 - -- They asked ( ēitēsanto ). First aorist indirect middle indicative, they asked for themselves. They were tired of a theocracy. Cf. 1Sa 8:5; 1Sa 10...

They asked ( ēitēsanto ).

First aorist indirect middle indicative, they asked for themselves. They were tired of a theocracy. Cf. 1Sa 8:5; 1Sa 10:1. Paul mentions with pride that Benjamin was the tribe of Saul (his name also), but he does not allude to Saul’ s sin (Furneaux).

Robertson: Act 13:21 - -- For the space of forty years ( etē tesserakonta ). Accusative of extent of time. Not in the O.T., but in Josephus, Ant. VI. 14, 9.

For the space of forty years ( etē tesserakonta ).

Accusative of extent of time. Not in the O.T., but in Josephus, Ant. VI. 14, 9.

Wesley: Act 13:21 - -- Including the time wherein Samuel judged Israel.

Including the time wherein Samuel judged Israel.

JFB: Act 13:18-22 - -- Rather, according to what appears the true reading, "cherished he them" (as a nurse the infant in her bosom).

Rather, according to what appears the true reading, "cherished he them" (as a nurse the infant in her bosom).

JFB: Act 13:21 - -- That the speaker was himself of the same name and of the same tribe, has often been noticed as in all likelihood present to the apostle's mind while s...

That the speaker was himself of the same name and of the same tribe, has often been noticed as in all likelihood present to the apostle's mind while speaking.

JFB: Act 13:21 - -- With this length of Saul's reign (not mentioned in the Old Testament), JOSEPHUS coincides [Antiquities, 6.14.9].

With this length of Saul's reign (not mentioned in the Old Testament), JOSEPHUS coincides [Antiquities, 6.14.9].

Clarke: Act 13:21 - -- Saul the son of Cis - In all proper names quoted from the Old Testament, we should undoubtedly follow, as nearly as possible, the same orthography: ...

Saul the son of Cis - In all proper names quoted from the Old Testament, we should undoubtedly follow, as nearly as possible, the same orthography: קיש Kish , was the name of this king’ s father, and so we spell it in the Old Testament, and yet have transformed it into Cis in the New, where the orthography is almost entirely lost

Clarke: Act 13:21 - -- The space of forty years - Reckoning from the time of his anointing by Samuel to the time of his death, from a.m. 2909 to 2949.

The space of forty years - Reckoning from the time of his anointing by Samuel to the time of his death, from a.m. 2909 to 2949.

Calvin: Act 13:21 - -- 21.Afterward they desire And this change was all one as if they would quite and manifestly overthrow the government which he had appointed, whereof G...

21.Afterward they desire And this change was all one as if they would quite and manifestly overthrow the government which he had appointed, whereof God himself complaineth in Samuel, (1Sa 8:5.) But the stability of the election saved them from being punished as such madness did deserve; yea, the wicked and unlawful desire of the people was to God a new and incredible occasion to erect the kingdom whence Christ should afterward come. For how is it that the scepter came to the tribe of Judah, save only because the people were desirous to have a king? And assuredly the people dealt wickedly; but God, who knoweth how to use evil things well, turned that offense into safety. Whereas Saul was thrown down from the kingdom, it served to reprove the fault of the people, (1Sa 15:28,) but immediately when the kingdom is established in David’s family the prophecy of Jacob was verified, (Gen 49:10.)

TSK: Act 13:21 - -- they : 1Sam. 8:5-22, 1Sa 12:12-19 Saul : 1Sa 10:1, 1Sa 10:21-26, 1Sa 11:15, 1Sa 15:1 Cis : 1Sa 9:1, 1Sa 9:2, 1Sa 10:21, Kish

they : 1Sam. 8:5-22, 1Sa 12:12-19

Saul : 1Sa 10:1, 1Sa 10:21-26, 1Sa 11:15, 1Sa 15:1

Cis : 1Sa 9:1, 1Sa 9:2, 1Sa 10:21, Kish

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Act 13:21 - -- And afterward they desired a king - See 1Sa 8:5; Hos 13:10. It was predicted that they would have a king, Deu 17:14-15. Saul, the son of C...

And afterward they desired a king - See 1Sa 8:5; Hos 13:10. It was predicted that they would have a king, Deu 17:14-15.

Saul, the son of Cis - is the Greek mode of writing the Hebrew name Kish. In the Old Testament it is uniformly written as "Kish,"and it is to be regretted that this has not been retained in the New Testament. See 1Sa 9:1.

By the space of forty years - During forty years. The Old Testament has not mentioned the time during which Saul reigned. Josephus says ( Antiq. , book 6, chapter 14, section 9) that he reigned for 18 years while Samuel was alive, and 22 years after his death. But Dr. Doddridge (note in loco) has shown that this cannot be correct, and that he probably reigned, as some copies of Josephus have it, but two years after the death of Samuel. Many critics suppose that the term of 40 years mentioned here includes also the time in which Samuel judged the people. This supposition does not violate the text in this place, and may be probable. See Doddridge and Grotius on the place.

Poole: Act 13:21 - -- Their great sin in desiring a king was, because by that desire they rejected God, who had at that very time a prophet (Samuel) by whom he governed t...

Their great sin in desiring a king was, because by that desire they rejected God, who had at that very time a prophet (Samuel) by whom he governed them, 1Sa 8:7 10:19 . They had been under a theocracy ever since they came out of Egypt, their laws and their governors being appointed by God; had their condition been as that of other nations, their desire had not been a provocation. These words,

by the space of forty years are to be joined with the foregoing verse, and the other foregoing words in the verse read with a parenthesis: and thus they show how long Samuel the prophet (as he is here called) exercised his prophetical office, which was the space here mentioned, partly before Saul was anointed king, and in part afterward; in which, as another Moses, he cared for, and went in and out before, the people of God, the like space of forty years. This computation of St. Paul might also agree more with the Septuagint, and be according to the then current account, which (not being of more consequence) St. Paul would not controvert at this time, having greater matters to speak of unto them.

Gill: Act 13:21 - -- And afterward they desired a king,.... 1Sa 8:5 which the Jews w say, was in the tenth year of Samuel; that is, of his government over Israel, or of hi...

And afterward they desired a king,.... 1Sa 8:5 which the Jews w say, was in the tenth year of Samuel; that is, of his government over Israel, or of his judging them:

and God gave unto them Saul; whose name signifies one that is asked; he was

the son of Cis; so the Septuagint read and pronounce the word "Kish", the name of Saul's father, 1Sa 9:1 a man of the tribe of Benjamin; not of Judah, from whence the sceptre was not to depart till Shiloh came; the business of their asking a king being resented by God, he gives them their first king of another tribe:

by the space of forty years. The Jews are very much divided about the years of Saul's reign, some allow him but two years x, and others three, one year that he reigned with Samuel, and two by himself y, which they conclude from 1Sa 13:1 but others z think this too short a time for the things done by him, the wars he fought with many nations, and his persecution of David from place to place; wherefore others a allow him, some seventeen, and others twenty years; but our apostle ascribes forty years to him, which must be understood both of him and Samuel; with which Josephus b agrees, who says that he reigned eighteen years, during Samuel's life, and twenty two years after his death, which make the space of forty years fixed by the apostle; though the clause, "by the space of forty years", may be read in construction with the latter end of the preceding verse, until Samuel the prophet; who, the Jews c own, judged so many years: wherefore the apostle is not to be charged with an error, as he is by a Jewish d objector; who observes, that from the beginning of Saul's kingdom, or from the time that he was anointed by Samuel the prophet, until the kingdom was renewed to him by all Israel, was one year, and then Saul chose three thousand men out of Israel after that he reigned two years by the consent of all Israel, until he sinned in the business of the Amalekites, and then he was accounted as a dead man, and the years of his reign were not numbered; at which time David was anointed, who must be about twenty years of age, 1Sa 16:18 and yet when he came to the kingdom after the death of Saul, he was but thirty years of age, 2Sa 5:4 from whence he thinks it follows that Saul reigned but ten years: in all which he is guilty of several mistakes, and advances things he cannot prove; it was not after Saul had reigned one year, but after he had reigned two years, that he chose three thousand men out of Israel, as is expressly said, 1Sa 13:1 and that he had reigned but two years when he sinned in the case of the Amalekites, wants proof; nor is it evident that David was twenty years of age when he was anointed, for it was after his unction that he is said to be a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, 1Sa 16:18 nor indeed can it be said in what year of Saul's reign he was anointed; so that nothing can be concluded from the age David was at when he began to reign, concerning the years of the reign of Saul his predecessor; and even according to this man's own reckoning, he must reign thirteen years, one before the consent of all Israel, two after, and before his sin about the Amalekites, and ten from the time of David's unction: but that Saul must reign more years than these, and even as many as the apostle assigns to him, may be concluded, not only from his wars with many nations, and his long persecution of David before observed; but from the number of high priests which were in his time, and who were no less than three, Ahiah, Abimelech, and Abiathar, 1Sa 14:3 and from his being a young man when he began to reign, 1Sa 9:2 and yet at the end of his reign, or at his death, he had a son, Ishbosheth, that was forty years of age, 2Sa 2:10.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 13:21 The words “who ruled” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. They have been supplied as a clarification for the English reader. See J...

Geneva Bible: Act 13:21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of ( m ) forty years. ( m...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Act 13:1-52 - --1 Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles.6 Of Sergius Paulus, and Elymas the sorcerer.13 Paul preaches at Antioch that Jesus is Christ.42 ...

Combined Bible: Act 13:21 - --notes one verse 17     

MHCC: Act 13:14-31 - --When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare readin...

Matthew Henry: Act 13:14-41 - -- Perga in Pamphylia was a noted place, especially for a temple there erected to the goddess Diana, yet nothing at all is related of what Paul and Bar...

Barclay: Act 13:16-41 - --This is an extremely important passage because it is the only full-length report of a sermon by Paul that we possess. When carefully compared with th...

Constable: Act 9:32--Rom 1:1 - --III. THE WITNESS TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH 9:32--28:31 Luke next recorded the church's expansion beyond...

Constable: Act 12:25--16:6 - --B. The extension of the church to Cyprus and Asia Minor 12:25-16:5 Luke recorded that Jesus came to brin...

Constable: Act 13:13--14:26 - --3. The mission to Asia Minor 13:13-14:25 Having evangelized Barnabas' homeland the missionaries ...

Constable: Act 13:14-52 - --Ministry in Antioch of Pisidia 13:14-52 Paul and Barnabas proceeded north about 100 mile...

Constable: Act 13:16-41 - --Paul's synagogue sermon in Antioch of Pisidia 13:16-41 Luke recorded three of Paul's evangelistic messages to unbelievers: here in Pisidian Antioch, i...

College: Act 13:1-52 - --ACTS 13 III. THE CHURCH IN THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (13:1-28:31) A. THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (13:1-14:28) 1. The Commissioning of Barnabas and Sa...

McGarvey: Act 13:17-24 - --17-24. After thus arresting the attention of his hearers, he approaches his main theme, by a rapid glance at some of the most cherished events in Jewi...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Acts (Book Introduction) THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES By Way of Introduction But for the Acts we should know nothing of the early apostolic period save what is told in the Epi...

JFB: Acts (Book Introduction) THIS book is to the Gospels what the fruit is to the tree that bears it. In the Gospels we see the corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying: in...

JFB: Acts (Outline) INTRODUCTION--LAST DAYS OF OUR LORD UPON EARTH--HIS ASCENSION. (Act 1:1-11) RETURN OF THE ELEVEN TO JERUSALEM--PROCEEDINGS IN THE UPPER ROOM TILL PEN...

TSK: Acts (Book Introduction) The Acts of the Apostles is a most valuable portion of Divine revelation; and, independently of its universal reception in the Christian church, as an...

TSK: Acts 13 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Act 13:1, Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles; Act 13:6, Of Sergius Paulus, and Elymas the sorcerer; Act 13:13, Paul preac...

Poole: Acts 13 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 13

MHCC: Acts (Book Introduction) This book unites the Gospels to the Epistles. It contains many particulars concerning the apostles Peter and Paul, and of the Christian church from th...

MHCC: Acts 13 (Chapter Introduction) (Act 13:1-3) The mission of Paul and Barnabas. (Act 13:4-13) Elymas the sorcerer. (v. 14-41) Paul's discourse at Antioch. (Act 13:42-52) He preache...

Matthew Henry: Acts (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Acts of the Apostles We have with an abundant satisfaction seen the foundation of our holy religion...

Matthew Henry: Acts 13 (Chapter Introduction) We have not yet met with any things concerning the spreading of the gospel to the Gentiles which bears any proportion to the largeness of that comm...

Barclay: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES A Precious Book In one sense Acts is the most important book in the New Testament. It is the simple truth t...

Barclay: Acts 13 (Chapter Introduction) The First Missionary Journey (Act_13:1-3) Sent Out By The Holy Spirit (Act_13:1-3 Continued) Success In Cyprus (Act_13:4-12) The Deserter (Act_1...

Constable: Acts (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title "Acts of the Apostles" is very ancient. The Anti-Marcioni...

Constable: Acts (Outline) Outline I. The witness in Jerusalem 1:1-6:7 A. The founding of the church 1:1-2:46 ...

Constable: Acts Acts Bibliography Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine. 1949. Revised ed. Pelican Archaeolog...

Haydock: Acts (Book Introduction) THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. INTRODUCTION. St. Luke, who had published his gospel, wrote also a second volume, which, from the first ages, hath bee...

Gill: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ACTS This book, in some copies, is called, "The Acts of the holy Apostles". It contains an history of the ministry and miracles of ...

College: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION As early as the second century the title "The Acts of the Apostles" was given to this document. Before that time the work probably circu...

College: Acts (Outline) OUTLINE I. THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM - 1:1-8:1a A. INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK - 1:1-3 B. THE COMMISSIONING OF THE APOSTLES - 1:4-8 C. THE ASCENSI...

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