¹⁵ you shall surely set a king over you ^(A)whom the Lord your God chooses; one ^(B)from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

^10 (A)He shall build a house for My name, and ^(B)he shall be My son, and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

David’s Army at Hebron

²³ Now these were the numbers of the ^[a]divisions that were equipped for war, and ^(A)came to David at ^(B)Hebron to ^(C)turn over the kingdom of Saul to him, ^(D)according to the word of the Lord:

¹² So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ^(A)ruddy, ^(B)with ^[a]bright eyes, and good-looking. ^(C)And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” ¹³ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and ^(D)the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

²⁴ And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him ^(A)whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?”

So all the people shouted and said, ^(B)“Long^[a] live the king!”

^15 (A)Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear the day before Saul came, saying, ¹⁶ “Tomorrow about this time ^(B)I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, ^(C)and you shall anoint him ^[a]commander over My people Israel, that he may save My people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have ^(D)looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”

¹⁷ So when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, ^(E)“There he is, the man of whom I spoke to you. This one shall reign over My people.”