1Sa 15:23, 26, 16:1, 2Ki 17:15, Jer 6:30, Rom 11:1-2 | ESV | STEP | For rebellion is as the sin of divination , and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry . Because you have rejected the word of the Lord , he has also rejected you from being king .

1 Samuel 15:23

23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and ^aidolatry.
Because ^byou have rejected the word of the Lord,
^che has also rejected you from being king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

26 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. ^dFor you have rejected the word of the Lord, ^eand the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

1 Samuel 16:1

David Anointed King

1 The Lord said to Samuel, ^f“How long will you grieve over Saul, since ^gI have rejected him from being king over Israel? ^hFill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, ⁱfor I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

2 Kings 17:15

15 They despised his statutes ^jand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^kfalse idols ^land became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^mLord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Jeremiah 6:30

30 ⁿRejected silver they are called,
for the Lord has rejected them.”

Romans 11:1-2

The Remnant of Israel

1 I ask, then, ^ohas God rejected his people? By no means! For ^pI myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, ^{▼▼Or one of the offspring of Abraham} a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 ^rGod has not rejected his people whom he ^sforeknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?