1 Samuel 17:36-37
36Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, afor he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37And David said, b“The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, cand the Lord be with you!”1 Kings 3:6-12
6And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because dhe walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and ehave given him a son to sit on his throne this day. 7And now, O Lord my God, fyou have made your servant king in place of David my father, galthough I am but a little child. I do not know hhow to go out or come in. 8 iAnd your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, jtoo many to be numbered or counted for multitude. 9 kGive your servant therefore an understanding mind lto govern your people, that I may mdiscern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”10It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 11And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 12behold, nI now do according to your word. Behold, oI give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
1 Kings 14:13
13And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him pthere is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.1 Kings 18:12
12And as soon as I have gone from you, qthe Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.2 Chronicles 34:2-3
2And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the rAsherim, and the carved and the metal images.Psalms 22:9-10
9 Yet you are he who stook me from the womb;you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
10On you was I cast from my birth,
and from tmy mother’s womb you have been my God.
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