Acts 13:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.’

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ μεταστήσας αὐτόν, ἤγειρεν αὐτοῖς τὸν Δαυίδ εἰς βασιλέα· ᾧ καὶ εἶπεν, μαρτυρήσας, Εὗρον Δαυίδ τὸν τοῦ Ἰεσσαί, ἄνδρα κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν μου, ὃς ποιήσει πάντα τὰ θελήματά μου.

Transliteration

And metastēsas him, ēgeiren to-them the David for basilea; to-whom also eipen, martyrēsas, Heuron David the [son] of the Iessai, andra according-to the kardian of-me, who poiēsei all the thelēmata of-me.

Grammar Details

• *metastēsas*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having removed/deposed
• *ēgeiren*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - he raised up
• *David*: accusative, masculine, singular - proper name
• *basilea*: accusative, masculine, singular - king
• *eipen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - he said
• *martyrēsas*: aorist, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having testified
• *Heuron*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I found
• *Iessai*: genitive, masculine, singular - proper name
• *andra*: accusative, masculine, singular - man
• *kardian*: accusative, feminine, singular - heart
• *poiēsei*: future, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - he will do
• *thelēmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - desires/wishes

Word Meanings

• *metastēsas*: having removed/set aside/deposed/taken away
• *ēgeiren*: raised up/established/appointed
• *martyrēsas*: having testified/witnessed/attested
• *Heuron*: I found/discovered
• *andra*: man/male person
• *kardian*: heart/mind/will/inner being
• *thelēmata*: wishes/desires/will/purposes

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 16:1 : 1 Samuel Anoints David as King The LORD said to Samuel,“How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.”
• 1 Sam 16:13 : 13 So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.
• 1 Sam 15:23 : 23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the LORD’s orders, he has rejected you from being king.”
• 1 Sam 15:26 : 26 Samuel said to Saul,“I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the LORD’s orders, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
• 1 Sam 15:28 : 28 Samuel said to him,“The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!
• 1 Kgs 15:5 : 5 He did this because David had done what he approved and had not disregarded any of his commandments his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
• Ps 78:70-72 : 70 He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds. 71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation. 72 David cared for them with pure motives; he led them with skill.
• Acts 7:46 : 46 He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.
• 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.
• Ps 89:19-37 : 19 Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said:“I have placed a young hero over a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people. 20 I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king. 21 My hand will support him, and my arm will strengthen him. 22 No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him. 23 I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him. 24 He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories. 25 I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. 26 He will call out to me,‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ 27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings. 28 I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure. 29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. 30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations, 31 if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments, 32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises. 33 But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise. 34 I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised. 35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David. 36 His dynasty will last forever. His throne will endure before me, like the sun, 37 it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies.”(Selah)
• 2 Sam 2:4 : 4 The men of Judah came and there they anointed David as king over the people of Judah.David was told,“The people of Jabesh Gilead are the ones who buried Saul.”
• 1 Sam 13:13-14 : 13 Then Samuel said to Saul,“You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever! 14 But now your kingdom will not continue! The LORD has sought out for himself a man who is loyal to him and the LORD has appointed him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the LORD commanded you.”
• 1 Sam 15:11 : 11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the LORD all that night.
• 1 Sam 28:16 : 16 Samuel said,“Why are you asking me, now that the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy?
• 1 Sam 31:6 : 6 So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.
• 2 Sam 5:3-5 : 3 When all the leaders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the LORD. They designated David as king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign and he reigned for forty years. 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
• 2 Sam 7:8 : 8 “So now, say this to my servant David:‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.
• 2 Sam 7:15 : 15 But my loyal love will not be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
• 1 Chr 10:13 : 13 So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD and did not obey the LORD’s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits.
• 1 Chr 28:4-5 : 4 The LORD God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. Indeed, he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. 5 From all the many sons the LORD has given me, he chose Solomon my son to rule on his behalf over Israel.
• Ps 2:6 : 6 “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”
• Jer 33:21 : 21 could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.
• Jer 33:26 : 26 Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I will restore them and show mercy to them.”
• Ezek 34:23 : 23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them– namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.
• Ezek 37:24-25 : 24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the LORD their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the LORD in fear and receive his blessings in the future.
• Hos 13:10-11 : 10 Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying,“Give me a king and princes”? 11 I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!
• 1 Sam 12:25 : 25 But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
• Acts 15:8 : 8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
• Heb 11:4-5 : 4 By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead. 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.