Acts 13:20 meaning and explanation
All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
Acts 13:20, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul is speaking in the synagogue at Pisidian Antioch, retelling Israel's story from Egypt to David to Jesus. Here he sums up the long span from the patriarchs to the settlement in Canaan as about 450 years, then moves to the period of the judges that followed, lasting until Samuel.
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