Acts 13:22

Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch

²¹ Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years. ²² And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure. ²³ From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;

Bearing Witness

Man After My Own Heart

Gave Testimony

David

Israel

Jesse

Saul

1 Samuel 16:1

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.

1 Samuel 15:23

For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

1 Samuel 15:26

And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:13

Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.

1 Samuel 15:28

And Samuel said to him, The Lord has taken away the kingdom of Israel from you this day by force, and has given it to a neighbour of yours who is better than you.

Acts 7:46

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

2 Samuel 2:4

And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.

1 Samuel 13:13-14

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

1 Samuel 15:11

It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?

1 Samuel 31:6

So death overtook Saul and his three sons and his servant on the same day.

2 Samuel 5:3-5

So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

2 Samuel 7:8

Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

2 Samuel 7:15

But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

1 Kings 15:3

And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 15:5

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 10:13

So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,

1 Chronicles 28:4-5

Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

Psalm 2:6

But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

Psalm 78:70-72

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

Psalm 89:19-37

Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.

Jeremiah 33:21

Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.

Jeremiah 33:26

Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.

Ezekiel 34:23

And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.

Ezekiel 37:24-25

And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.

Hosea 3:5

And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

Hosea 13:10-11

Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

Acts 15:8

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

Hebrews 11:4-5

By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.