1 Samuel 16:1

David Anointed King

1The Lord said to Samuel, aHow long will you grieve over Saul, since bI have rejected him from being king over Israel? cFill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, dfor I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

1 Samuel 16:13

13Then Samuel took ethe horn of oil fand anointed him in the midst of his brothers. gAnd the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 23:17

17And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. hSaul my father also knows this.”

1 Samuel 25:30

30And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince
Or leader
over Israel,

Psalms 116:11

11 jI said in my alarm,
kAll mankind are liars.”

Proverbs 13:12

12Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
lbut a desire fulfilled is ma tree of life.

Isaiah 40:27-31

27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and speak, O Israel,
n“My way is hidden from the Lord,
oand my right is disregarded by my God”?
28Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is pthe everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
qhis understanding is unsearchable.
29He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31but rthey who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings slike eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 51:12

12 “I, I am he twho comforts you;
who are you that you are afraid of uman who dies,
of the son of man who is made vlike grass,
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