Acts 13:19

αὐτοῖς omitted after κατεκληρονόμησεν with אBD. Vulg. has ‘eis.’

19. ἔθνη ἑπτά, seven nations. They are enumerated (Deuteronomy 7:1) before the people went over Jordan, viz. the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

κατεκληρονόμησεν τὴν γῆν αὐτῶν ὡς ἔτεσιν κ.τ.λ., he gave their land for an heritage about the space of four hundred and fifty years. According to the received chronology there was about this length of time between the call of Abraham and the death of Joshua. So that the land is regarded as a κληρονομία from that early time. But it is dangerous to found any conclusions on chronology based, as the O.T. chronology must be, on such insufficient data.

καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἔδωκεν κριτὰς ἕως Σαμουὴλ προφήτου, and after these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. On Samuel as the prophet above all others cf. Acts 3:24, note.