Acts 13:22

New Century Version

After God took him away, God made David their king. God said about him: ‘I have found in David son of Jesse the kind of man I want. He will do all I want him to do.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:4

Then the men of Judah came to Hebron and appointed David king over Judah. They told David that the men of Jabesh Gilead had buried Saul.

2 Samuel 7:15

I took away my love from Saul, whom I removed before you, but I will never stop loving your son.

2 Samuel 7:8

“You must tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: I took you from the pasture and from tending the sheep and made you leader of my people Israel.

1 Kings 15:3

He did all the same sins his father before him had done. Abijam was not faithful to the Lord his God as David, his great-grandfather, had been.

1 Kings 15:5

David always did what the Lord said was right and obeyed his commands all his life, except the one time when David sinned against Uriah the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 10:13

Saul died because he was not faithful to the Lord and did not obey the Lord. He even went to a medium and asked her for advice

1 Chronicles 2:12

Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.

Psalm 2:6

He says, “I have appointed my own king to rule in Jerusalem on my holy mountain, Zion.”

Jeremiah 33:21

only then could you change my agreement with David and Levi. Only then would my servant David not have a descendant ruling as king on David’s throne. And only then would the family of Levi not be priests serving me in the Temple.

Jeremiah 33:26

only then would I turn away from Jacob’s descendants. And only then would I not let the descendants of David my servant rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will be kind to them and cause good things to happen to them again.”

Ezekiel 34:23

Then I will put over them one shepherd, my servant David. He will feed them and tend them and be their shepherd.

Hosea 3:5

After this, the people of Israel will return to the Lord their God and follow him and the king from David’s family. In the last days they will turn in fear to the Lord, and he will bless them.

Acts 13:36

David did God’s will during his lifetime. Then he died and was buried beside his ancestors, and his body did rot in the grave.

Acts 15:8

God, who knows the thoughts of everyone, accepted them. He showed this to us by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

Acts 7:46

who pleased God and asked God to let him build a house for him, the God of Jacob.

1 Samuel 12:25

But if you are stubborn and do evil, he will sweep you and your king away.”

1 Samuel 15:11

“I am sorry I made Saul king, because he has stopped following me and has not obeyed my commands.” Samuel was upset, and he cried out to the Lord all night long.

1 Samuel 15:23

Disobedience is as bad as the sin of sorcery. Pride is as bad as the sin of worshiping idols. You have rejected the Lord’s command. Now he rejects you as king.”

1 Samuel 15:26

But Samuel said to Saul, “I won’t go back with you. You rejected the Lord’s command, and now he rejects you as king of Israel.”

1 Samuel 15:28

Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors who is better than you.

1 Samuel 16:1

The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you continue to feel sorry for Saul? I have rejected him as king of Israel. Fill your container with olive oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse who lives in Bethlehem, because I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

1 Samuel 16:13

So Samuel took the container of olive oil and poured it on Jesse’s youngest son to appoint him in front of his brothers. From that day on, the Lord’s Spirit worked in David. Samuel then went back to Ramah.

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, “The Lord has left you and has become your enemy. So why do you call on me?

1 Samuel 31:6

So Saul, his three sons, and the officer who carried his armor died together that day.