1Sa 16:1, 2Sa 7:8, 1Ch 28:4, Psa 78:70, 89:19-20 | 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 Samuel 16:1

David Anointed King

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.”

2 Samuel 7:8

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

1 Chronicles 28:4

4 Yet the Lord God of Israel ^gchose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel ^hforever. ⁱFor he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s ^jhouse, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Psalms 78:70

70 He ^kchose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 89:19-20

19 ^lOf old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts godly ones} and said:
“I have ⁿgranted help to one who is ^omighty;
I have exalted one ^pchosen from the people.
20 ^qI have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have ^ranointed him,