1Sa 16:1, 13, 2Sa 2:4, 5:3-5, 7:8, 1Ch 28:4-5, Psa 2:6, 78:70-72 | ESV | STEP | The Lord said to Samuel , How long will you grieve over Saul , since I have rejected him from being king over Israel ? Fill your horn with oil , and go . I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite , for I have provided for myself a king among his sons .

1 The Lord said to Samuel, ^a“How 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

13 Then 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.

2 Samuel 2:4

4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David ^hking over the house of Judah.

When they told David, ⁱ“It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”

2 Samuel 5:3-5

3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, ^jand King David made a covenant with them at Hebron ^kbefore the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel. 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and ^lhe reigned forty years. 5 ^mAt Hebron he reigned over Judah ⁿseven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years. ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll lacks verses 4–5}

2 Samuel 7:8

8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^pI took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over my people Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

4 Yet the Lord God of Israel ^rchose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel ^sforever. ^tFor he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s ^uhouse, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. 5 And of ^vall my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) he ^whas chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Psalms 2:6

6 “As for me, I have ^xset my King
on ^yZion, my ^zholy hill.”

Psalms 78:70-72

70 He ^aachose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from ^abfollowing the nursing ewes he brought him
to ^acshepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his ^adinheritance.
72 With ^aeupright heart he shepherded them
and ^afguided them with his skillful hand.