Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, he made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel, as the Lord had promised through Samuel.

David Defeats the Philistines

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went out to meet them.

“Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant.”

Through Ahaziah’s visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him; they presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”

The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,

He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing love to his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.

Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand.

The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.

You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.

Look on our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.

I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

“Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.

“Here I will make a horn grow for David and set up a lamp for my anointed one.

“This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

The Lord’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

“Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.

After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.