After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’

For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things?

But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it,

“Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas – who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus –

“Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.