Acts 13:19

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

In the latter part of this verse and in the next the oldest authorities read, "He gave their land for an heritage, about the space of four hundred and fifty years; and after these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet." This text would carry back the possession of the land to the first promise thereof at the time when Abram was called, for according to the received chronology about four hundred and fifty years elapsed between that event and the death of Joshua.

On Samuel, as theprophet par excellence, cp. Acts 3:24 note.