1Sa 9:16, 15:1, 17, 16:12, 2Ki 8:13, Psa 75:6-7, Pro 8:15-16, Jer 27:5-7 | ESV | STEP | Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin , and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel . He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines . For I have seen my people , because their cry has come to me.

1 Samuel 9:16

16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, ^aand you shall anoint him to be prince ^{▼▼Or leader} over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. ^cFor I have seen ^{▼▼Septuagint adds the affliction of} my people, because their cry has come to me.”

1 Samuel 15:1

The Lord Rejects Saul

1 And Samuel said to Saul, ^e“The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:17

17 And Samuel said, ^f“Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:12

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

2 Kings 8:13

13 And Hazael said, “What is your servant, ⁱwho is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, ^j“The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.”

Psalms 75:6-7

6 For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes ^klifting up,
7 but it is ^lGod who executes judgment,
^mputting down one and lifting up another.

Proverbs 8:15-16

15 By me ⁿkings reign,
and rulers decree what is just;
16 by me princes rule,
and nobles, all who govern justly. ^{▼▼Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth}

Jeremiah 27:5-7

5 “It is I who ^pby my great power and my outstretched arm ^qhave made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, ^rand I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 ^sNow I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ^tmy servant, ^uand I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 ^vAll the nations shall serve him and ^whis son and ^xhis grandson, ^yuntil the time of his own land comes. ^zThen many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.