Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 13:21 - 13:21

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 13:21 - 13:21


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21. κἀκεῖθεν, and after that. The word indicates from that point in their history where Samuel appears they began to clamour for a king, and thus the local becomes a temporal meaning in the adverb.

τὸν Σαοὺλ υἱὸν Καίς, ἄνδρα ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμείν, Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin. And to the speaker himself some part of this description applied, for he also was of the tribe of Benjamin.

The forty years’ duration of Saul’s reign is only to be gathered indirectly from Holy Writ, but Josephus (Ant VI. 14. 9) expressly states that time as the length of his reign, and as Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, whom Abner set on the throne after his father’s death was forty years old when he began to reign (2Sa 2:10), we may conclude that the length assigned in the text is correct.