Acts 13:36

WEB

³⁶For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

KJV

³⁶For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

BSB

³⁶^[+] For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

FBV

³⁶^[+] But David died, after he had done what God wanted in his own time, and he was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

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Acts 2:29

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.

2 Samuel 7:12

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.

1 Kings 2:10

¹⁰David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

Acts 13:22

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 Chronicles 18:14

¹⁴David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness for all his people.

Psalms 49:14

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.

⁷¹from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. ⁷²So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

1 Chronicles 15:25-29

²⁵So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. ²⁶When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. ²⁷David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him. ²⁸Thus all Israel brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. ²⁹As the ark of the LORD’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Chronicles 21:1

¹Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.

1 Chronicles 13:2-4

²David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s 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 pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. ³Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

⁴All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.