Acts 13:21,22

Afterward they desired a king Being foolishly desirous of being like the neighbouring nations in that respect, and insensible of the favour which God had done them in assuming the character and relation of a king to them. And God gave them Saul Whose government, with that of Samuel the prophet, lasted for the space of forty years So Beza, Grotius, Limborch, and many other eminent critics. And when he had removed him In his righteous displeasure, from reigning over Israel; he raised up unto them David Hence they might understand that the dispensations of God admitted of various changes; to whom he gave a more glorious testimony Than to Saul. See 1 Samuel 13:14; Psalms 89:20. And said, I have found David, &c., a man after my own heart “This expression is to be taken in a limited sense. David was such at that time, but not at all times. And he was so in the respect here mentioned: he performed all God's will In the particulars there spoken of. But he was not a man after God's own heart in other respects, wherein he performed his own will. In the matter of Uriah, for instance, he was as far from being a man after God's own heart, as Saul himself was. It is, therefore, a very gross, as well as dangerous mistake, to suppose this is the character of David in every part of his behaviour. We must beware of this, unless we would recommend adultery and murder as things after God's own heart.” So Mr. Wesley: and in the same sense Dr. Benson understands the words, observing, “when it is said that King David was a man after God's own heart, it ought to be understood of his public, not of his private character. He was a man after God's own heart, because he ruled his people Israel according to the divine will. He did not allow of idolatry; he did not set up for absolute power; he was guided in the government of the nation by the law of Moses, as the standing rule of government, and by the prophet, or the divine oracle, whereby God gave directions upon particular emergencies. That this was the meaning of David's being a man after God's own heart, will easily appear by comparing 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Samuel 28:17; 1 Chronicles 9:13; Psalms 78:70, &c.; Psalms 89:20, &c.”