Acts 2:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

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  • Acts 13:36 : 36 Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.
  • Acts 7:8-9 : 8 And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel. 9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,
  • Heb 7:4 : 4 Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.
  • Neh 3:16 : 16 By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.
  • Acts 26:26 : 26 For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

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    30 But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,

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    10 Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.

  • Acts 13:33-37
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    33 Which God has now put into effect for our children, by sending Jesus; as it says in the second Psalm, You are my Son; this day I have given you being.

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    35 Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.

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