1 Samuel 13:13-14
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13 And Samuel said to Saul, (A)“You have done foolishly. (B)You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now (C)your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man (D)after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince[a] over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
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1 Kings 15:5
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5 because (A)David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, (B)except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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Psalm 78:70-72
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1 Samuel 16:13
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13 Then Samuel took (A)the horn of oil (B)and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. (C)And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
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1 Samuel 16:1
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David Anointed King
16 The Lord said to Samuel, (A)“How long will you grieve over Saul, since (B)I have rejected him from being king over Israel? (C)Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, (D)for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”
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Ezekiel 37:24-25
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24 “My servant (A)David (B)shall be king over them, and they shall all have (C)one shepherd. (D)They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 (E)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there (F)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince (G)forever.
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Psalm 89:19-37
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19 (A)Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,[a] and said:
“I have (B)granted help to one who is (C)mighty;
I have exalted one (D)chosen from the people.
20 (E)I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have (F)anointed him,
21 so that my (G)hand shall be established with him;
my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not outwit him;
(H)the wicked shall not humble him.
23 I will (I)crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
24 My (J)faithfulness and my (K)steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his (L)horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand on (M)the sea
and his right hand on (N)the rivers.
26 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my (O)Father,
my God, and (P)the Rock of my salvation.’
27 And I will make him the (Q)firstborn,
(R)the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my (S)covenant will stand firm[b] for him.
29 I will establish his (T)offspring forever
and his (U)throne as (V)the days of the heavens.
30 (W)If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,[c]
31 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with (X)the rod
and their iniquity with stripes,
33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.
34 I will not violate my (Y)covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
35 Once for all I have sworn (Z)by my holiness;
I will not (AA)lie to David.
36 His (AB)offspring shall endure forever,
(AC)his (AD)throne as long as (AE)the sun before me.
37 Like (AF)the moon it shall be established forever,
(AG)a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah
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- Psalm 89:19 Some Hebrew manuscripts godly ones
- Psalm 89:28 Or will remain faithful
- Psalm 89:30 Or my just decrees
1 Samuel 15:28
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28 And Samuel said to him, (A)“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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1 Samuel 15:26
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26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. (A)For you have rejected the word of the Lord, (B)and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
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Hosea 13:10-11
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10 (A)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers—
those of whom (B)you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 (C)I gave you a king in my anger,
and (D)I took him away in my wrath.
1 Kings 15:3
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3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and (A)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
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1 Samuel 15:23
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23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and (A)idolatry.
Because (B)you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(C)he has also rejected you from being king.”
2 Samuel 7:8
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8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince[a] over my people Israel.
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2 Samuel 2:4
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4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David (A)king over the house of Judah.
When they told David, (B)“It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”
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Acts 15:8
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8 And God, (A)who knows the heart, (B)bore witness to them, (C)by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
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1 Chronicles 28:4-5
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4 Yet the Lord God of Israel (A)chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel (B)forever. (C)For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's (D)house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. 5 And of (E)all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he (F)has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
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1 Chronicles 10:13
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13 So Saul died (A)for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also (B)consulted a medium, seeking guidance.
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2 Samuel 7:15
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15 (A)but my steadfast love will not depart from him, (B)as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
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2 Samuel 5:3-5
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3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, (A)and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron (B)before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and (C)he reigned forty years. 5 (D)At Hebron he reigned over Judah (E)seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.[a]
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- 2 Samuel 5:5 Dead Sea Scroll lacks verses 4–5
1 Samuel 31:6
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6 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
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1 Samuel 15:11
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11 (A)“I regret[a] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and (B)has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
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1 Samuel 12:25
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25 But if you still do wickedly, (A)you shall be swept away, (B)both you and your king.”
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Hebrews 11:4-5
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4 By faith (A)Abel offered to God (B)a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And (C)through his faith, though he died, he (D)still speaks. 5 By faith (E)Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
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