Acts 2:29

World English Bible (2000)

"Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

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  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • 1 Kgs 2:10 : 10 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
  • Acts 7:8-9 : 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
  • Heb 7:4 : 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
  • Neh 3:16 : 16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, to the place over against the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
  • Acts 26:26 : 26 For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

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    30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

    31he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.

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    10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

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    33that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

    34"Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'

    35Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

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    24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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    26Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;

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    28You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.'

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    29When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

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