Acts 13:36
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New International Version (©1984)
"For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is not a reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

International Standard Version (©2008)
For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After doing God's will by serving the people of his time, David died. He was laid to rest with his ancestors, but his body decayed.

King James Bible
For 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:

American King James Version
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:

American Standard Version
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Bible in Basic English
Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.

Darby Bible Translation
For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

English Revised Version
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Webster's Bible Translation
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption:

Weymouth New Testament
For David, after having been useful to his own generation in accordance with God's purpose, did fall asleep, was gathered to his forefathers, and did undergo decay.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

Geneva Study Bible

For 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:

Wesley's Notes

13:36 David, having served the will of God in his generation, fell asleep - So his service extended not itself beyond the bounds of the common age of man: but the service of the Messiah to all generations, as his kingdom to all ages. Served the will of God - Why art thou here thou who art yet in the world? Is it not that thou also mayest serve the will of God? Art thou serving it now? Doing all his will? And was added to his fathers - Not only in body. This expression refers to the soul also, and supposes the immortality of it.

King James Translators' Notes

after...: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

36. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God-rather, "served," in his own generation, the will (or "counsel") of God; yielding himself an instrument for the accomplishment of God's high designs, and in this respect being emphatically "the man after God's own heart." This done, he "fell asleep, and was gathered to his fathers, and saw corruption." David, therefore (argues the apostle), could not be the subject of his own prediction, which had its proper fulfilment only in the resurrection of the uncorrupted body of the Son of God, emphatically God's "Holy One."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:32-37 The resurrection of Christ was the great proof of his being the Son of God. It was not possible he should be held by death, because he was the Son of God, and therefore had life in himself, which he could not lay down but with a design to take it again. The sure mercies of David are that everlasting life, of which the resurrection was a sure pledge; and the blessings of redemption in Christ are a certain earnest, even in this world. David was a great blessing to the age wherein he lived. We were not born for ourselves, but there are those living around us, to whom we must study to be serviceable. Yet here is the difference; Christ was to serve all generations. May we look to Him who is declared to be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead, that by faith in him we may walk with God, and serve our generation according to his will; and when death comes, may we fall asleep in him, with a joyful hope of a blessed resurrection.


1 Kings 2:10 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.
Acts 2:29 "Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 8:1 Saul was in hearty agreement with putting him to death. And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Acts 13:22 "After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, 'I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MY HEART, who will do all My will.'
Acts 20:27 "For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. (NASB ©1995)

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For 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:

served, etc. or, in his own age served the will of God. 22 1Ch 11:2 13:2-4 15:12-16,25-29 18:14 22:1-29:30 Ps 78:71,72

fell. 7:60 2Sa 7:12 1Ki 2:10 1Co 15:6,18 1Th 4:13

and was. 2:29 1Ch 17:11 2Ch 9:31 12:16 21:1 26:23

and saw. Ge 3:19 Job 17:14 19:26,27 21:26 Ps 49:9,14 Joh 11:39 1Co 15:42-44,53,54

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