Acts 13:22
When he removed him, he made David their king. He testified about him when he said: I found David the son of Jesse is a man after my own heart. He will do my will.
1 Samuel 16:1
Jehovah said to Samuel: How long will you mourn for Saul? After all I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go. I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite. I have a king from among his sons.
1 Samuel 15:23
The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.
1 Samuel 15:26
I will not return with you, Samuel answered. You rejected Jehovah's command. He has rejected you as king of Israel.
1 Samuel 16:13
Samuel took the olive oil and anointed David in front of his brothers. Immediately the Spirit of Jehovah took control of David and was with him from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
1 Samuel 15:28
Samuel said to him: Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel away from you today. He gave it to someone who is a better man than you.
Acts 7:46
Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
2 Samuel 2:4
Then the men of Judah came to Hebron. They anointed David as king of Judah. David heard that the people of Jabesh-gilead (Jabesh in Gilead) buried Saul.
1 Samuel 12:25
If you continue to sin, you and your king will be destroyed.
1 Samuel 13:13-14
You did a foolish thing, Samuel told Saul. You did not follow the command of Jehovah your God. If you had, Jehovah would have established your kingdom over Israel from generation to generation (for a very long time).
1 Samuel 15:11
I am sorry that I made Saul king. He has turned away from me and disobeyed my commands. Samuel was angry. All night long he pleaded with Jehovah.
1 Samuel 28:16
Samuel said: Why do you call me when Jehovah has abandoned you and become your enemy?
1 Samuel 31:6
That is how Saul, his three sons, and the young man died. All of Saul's men died that day.
2 Samuel 5:3-5
All the elders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them. They anointed him, and he became king of Israel.
2 Samuel 7:8
Say this to my servant David: 'This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture where you followed sheep so that you could be the leader of my people Israel.
2 Samuel 7:15
I will never put an end to my agreement with him. I put an end to my agreement with Saul when he was king before you.
1 Kings 15:3
He was not completely loyal to Jehovah his God as his great-grandfather David had been. He committed the same sins as his father did.
1 Kings 15:5
Jehovah did this because David had done what was right in Jehovah's eyes. He obeyed his commandments, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
1 Chronicles 10:13
Saul died because of his unfaithfulness to Jehovah. He did not obey the word of Jehovah (YHWH). He asked a medium to request information from a dead person.
1 Chronicles 28:4-5
Yet, from my entire family Jehovah God of Israel chose me to be king of Israel for as long as I live. He had chosen the tribe of Judah to lead Israel. From the families of Judah he chose my father's family. From among my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.
Psalm 2:6
I have installed (anointed) (established) my king on Zion, my holy mountain.
Psalm 78:70-72
He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens.
Psalm 89:19-37
Once you spoke in vision to your godly ones. You said: I have given help to one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen from the people.
Jeremiah 33:21
then my covenant may also be broken with David my servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, with the Levitical priests as my ministers.
Jeremiah 33:26
then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David my servant. And I would not take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their prosperity and will show them love and compassion.'
Ezekiel 34:23
I will place one shepherd over them, my servant David. He will take care of them. He will take care of them and be their shepherd.
Ezekiel 37:24-25
My servant David will be their king. All of them will have one shepherd. They will live by my rules, and they will obey my laws.
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God. David their king will come with trembling to Jehovah and to his goodness in the last days.
Hosea 13:10-11
Where, now, is your king, the one who is supposed to save you? Where in all your cities are your judges? You said: 'Give us kings and officials!'
Acts 15:8
God knows their hearts and showed that he accepted them by giving them Holy Spirit just as he did to us.
Hebrews 11:4-5
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Through this he was commended as righteous. God testified about his gifts. Thus through faith he still speaks even though he is dead.