Acts 13:36

David served his own generation, then died and saw decay. The psalm's words cannot ultimately refer to him.

Cross-references · 30

• Acts 2:29“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.
• 1 Kgs 2:10David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.
• 2 Sam 7:12When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
• Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
• 1 Chr 18:14David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
• 2 Chr 12:16Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
• 2 Chr 26:23So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.
• 2 Chr 21:1Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
• 2 Chr 9:31Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
• Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
• Job 19:26–27After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
• Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
• John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
• 1 Chr 17:11It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
• 1 Chr 15:25–29So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
• 1 Chr 13:2–4David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us.
• 1 Chr 22:1–19Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
• 1 Cor 15:53–54For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
• 1 Cor 15:6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
• Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
• Ps 78:71–72from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
• Ps 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
• 1 Cor 15:18Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
• 1 Chr 15:12–16and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
• Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
• Acts 7:60He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
• 1 Th 4:13But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
• 1 Chr 11:2In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”
• 1 Cor 15:42–44So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

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