1 Chronicles 28:4
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
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1 Chronicles 28:4
However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.
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Genesis 1:2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
Psalms 60:7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
Psalms 108:8
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
Hebrews 7:14
For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
Revelation 5:5
One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
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Deuteronomy 7:7
Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
Deuteronomy 7:8
but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
Psalms 18:19
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Matthew 3:17
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
Ephesians 1:5
having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
Ephesians 1:9
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Ephesians 3:11
according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 2:4
God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
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1 Samuel 26:1
The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”
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2 Samuel 7:2
the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but God’s ark dwells within curtains.”
2 Samuel 7:17
Nathan spoke to David all these words, and according to all this vision.
2 Samuel 12:24
David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
2 Samuel 12:25
and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
1 Kings 1:11
Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?
1 Kings 2:26
To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
1 Kings 3:2
However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
1 Kings 8:16
‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
1 Chronicles 17:1
When David was living in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I live in a cedar house, but the ark of Yahweh’s covenant is in a tent.”
1 Chronicles 17:5
for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
1 Chronicles 29:3
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:
2 Chronicles 6:7
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Proverbs 3:12
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
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Deuteronomy 3:26
But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
2 Samuel 7:3
Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you.”
2 Samuel 7:12
When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:13
He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;
2 Samuel 7:15
but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.” ’ ”
1 Kings 8:17
“Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:12
He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.
1 Chronicles 17:13
I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you;
1 Chronicles 22:8
But Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ‘You have shed blood abundantly and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
1 Chronicles 29:1
David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Luke 1:33
and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom.”
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
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1 Kings 2:15
He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However, the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
1 Chronicles 23:1
Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
Psalms 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
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Deuteronomy 17:14
When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,”
Deuteronomy 17:15
you shall surely set him whom Yahweh your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one from among your brothers. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
1 Samuel 9:16
“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”
1 Samuel 10:24
Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” All the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”
1 Samuel 13:14
But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
1 Samuel 16:7
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:10
Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”
1 Samuel 16:11
Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel 25:30
It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,
2 Samuel 7:8
Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:2
In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’ ”
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
Psalms 78:69
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
Psalms 78:71
from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
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Psalms 147:10
He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalms 147:11
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
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2 Chronicles 19:11
Behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters. Also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and may Yahweh be with the good.”
Daniel 4:32
You shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’ ”
Daniel 5:18
“To you, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.
Daniel 5:19
Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
Daniel 5:22
“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
Daniel 5:23
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
Matthew 6:13
Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
John 19:11
Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
Revelation 17:14
These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
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John 3:27
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 15:7
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
Galatians 1:15
But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,
Galatians 2:7
but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—
Galatians 2:8
for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—
Galatians 2:9
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
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Acts 1:24
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
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Acts 7:47
But Solomon built him a house.
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
Acts 7:49
‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?
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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Psalms 62:11
God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Proverbs 8:16
By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
Jeremiah 27:5
‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.
Jeremiah 27:6
Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.
Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
Jeremiah 27:8
“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Daniel 2:21
He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Revelation 19:16
He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
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