ach. 15:1; [Acts 13:21]
bRuth 4:4
c2 Sam. 21:6
d2 Sam. 16:16; 1 Kgs. 1:25, 39; 2 Kgs. 11:12; 2 Chr. 23:11
ech. 17:42
f[ch. 9:17]
g1 Sam. 16:12, 13
hch. 17:23, 27
ich. 5:2; Gen. 49:8; Ps. 78:68
j1 Sam. 16:1

1 Samuel 9:15

15Now the day before Saul came, athe Lord had brevealed to Samuel:

1 Samuel 10:24

24And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him cwhom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, d“Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 16:12

12And he sent and brought him in. Now he was eruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, f“Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”

1 Chronicles 28:4

4Yet 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.
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