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1 Kings 15 5
For David did what was right in the LORD’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hethite.
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1 Samuel 13 13-1 Samuel 13 14
Samuel said to Saul,“ You have been foolish. You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you. It was at this time that the LORD would have permanently established your reign over Israel,but now your reign will not endure. The LORD has found a man after his own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over his people, because you have not done what the LORD commanded.”
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1 Samuel 16 13
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully on David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
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1 Samuel 16 1
The LORD said to Samuel,“ How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.”
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Psalms 78:70-72
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob— over Israel, his inheritance.He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.
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Psalms 89:19-37
You once spoke in a vision to your faithful ones and said,“ I have granted help to a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with my sacred oil.My hand will always be with him, and my arm will strengthen him.The enemy will not oppress him; the wicked will not afflict him.I will crush his foes before him and strike those who hate him.My faithfulness and love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.I will extend his power to the sea and his right hand to the rivers.He will call to me,‘ You are my Father, my God, the rock of my salvation.’I will also make him my firstborn, greatest of the kings of the earth.I will always preserve my faithful love for him, and my covenant with him will endure.I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as heaven lasts.If his sons abandon my instruction and do not live by my ordinances,if they dishonor my statutes and do not keep my commands,then I will call their rebellion to account with the rod, their iniquity with blows.But I will not withdraw my faithful love from him or betray my faithfulness.I will not violate my covenant or change what my lips have said.Once and for all I have sworn an oath by my holiness; I will not lie to David.His offspring will continue forever, his throne like the sun before me,like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
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Ezekiel 37:24-25
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.“‘ They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your ancestors lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince forever.
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1 Kings 15 3
Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God as his ancestor David had been.
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1 Samuel 15 28
Samuel said to him,“ The LORD has torn the kingship of Israel away from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.
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2 Samuel 2 4
Then the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David,“ It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
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1 Samuel 15 26
Samuel replied to Saul,“ I will not return with you. Because you rejected the word of the LORD, the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
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1 Samuel 15 23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.
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Hebrews 11:4-5
By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away. For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God.
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Acts 15:8
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he also did to us.
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Acts 7:46
He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
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2 Samuel 7 8
“ So now this is what you are to say to my servant David:‘ This is what the LORD of Armies says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.
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1 Samuel 31 6
So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.
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Hosea 13:10-11
Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying,“ Give me a king and leaders”?I give you a king in my anger and take away a king in my wrath.
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1 Samuel 12 25
However, if you continue to do what is evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
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2 Samuel 7 15
But my faithful love will never leave him as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
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2 Samuel 5 3-2 Samuel 5 5
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the LORD’s presence, and they anointed David king over Israel.David was thirty years old when he began his reign; he reigned forty years.In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
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Jeremiah 33:21
then also my covenant with my servant David may be broken. If that could happen, then he would not have a son reigning on his throne and the Levitical priests would not be my ministers.
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1 Chronicles 10 13
Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD because he did not keep the LORD’s word. He even consulted a medium for guidance,
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1 Chronicles 28 4-1 Chronicles 28 5
“ Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me out of all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah, my father’s family, and from my father’s sons, he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.And out of all my sons— for the LORD has given me many sons— he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the LORD’s kingdom over Israel.
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Ezekiel 34:23
I will establish over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will shepherd them. He will tend them himself and will be their shepherd.
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the LORD and to his goodness in the last days.
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Psalms 2:6
“ I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
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Jeremiah 33:26
then I might also reject the descendants of Jacob and of my servant David. That is, I would not take rulers from his descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But in fact, I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.”
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1 Samuel 15 11
“ I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following me and has not carried out my instructions.” So Samuel became angry and cried out to the LORD all night.
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1 Samuel 28 16
Samuel answered,“ Since the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?