1 Samuel 12:13

12:13 Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

1 Samuel 15:28

15:28 Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!

1 Samuel 16:1-2

Samuel Anoints David as King

16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel.¹ Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem,² for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.”³

16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you⁴ and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

1 Samuel 7:8

7:8 The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep⁵ crying out to the Lord our⁶ God so that he may save us⁷ from the hand of the Philistines!”

1 Samuel 7:13

7:13 So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

Psalms 2:6

2:6 “I myself⁸ have installed⁹ my king

on Zion, my holy hill.”

Psalms 21:1

Psalm 21¹⁰

For the music director; a psalm of David.

21:1 O Lord, the king rejoices in the strength you give;¹¹

he takes great delight in the deliverance you provide.¹²

Psalms 21:7

21:7 For the king trusts¹³ in the Lord,

and because of the sovereign Lord’s¹⁴ faithfulness he is not upended.¹⁵

Isaiah 32:1

Justice and Wisdom Will Prevail

32:1 Look, a king will promote fairness;¹⁶

officials will promote justice.¹⁷

Isaiah 45:24

45:24 they will say about me,

“Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’”¹⁸

All who are angry at him will cower before him.¹⁹

Matthew 25:34

25:34 Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 28:18

28:18 Then Jesus came up and said to them,²⁰ “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

¹tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”

²map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

³tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”

⁴tn Heb “in your hand.”

⁵tn Heb “don’t stop.”

⁶tc The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”

⁷tn After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.

⁸tn The first person pronoun appears before the first person verbal form for emphasis, reflected in the translation by “myself.”

⁹tn Or perhaps “consecrated.”

¹⁰sn Psalm 21. The psalmist praises the Lord for the way he protects and blesses the Davidic king.

¹¹tn Heb “in your strength.” The translation interprets the pronominal suffix as subjective, rather than merely descriptive (or attributive).

¹²tn Heb “and in your deliverance, how greatly he rejoices.”

¹³tn The active participle draws attention to the ongoing nature of the action.

¹⁴tn Traditionally “the Most High’s.” The divine title “Most High” (עֶלְיוֹן, ’elyon) pictures God as the exalted ruler of the universe who vindicates the innocent and judges the wicked. Note the focus of vv. 8-12 and see Ps 47:2.

¹⁵tn Another option is to translate the imperfect verbal form as future, “he will not be upended” (cf. NRSV “he shall not be moved”). Even if one chooses this option, the future tense must be understood in a generalizing sense.

¹⁶tn Heb “will reign according to fairness.”

¹⁷tn Heb “will rule according to justice.”

¹⁸tn Heb “‘Yes, in the Lord,’ one says about me, ‘is deliverance and strength.’”

¹⁹tn Heb “will come to him and be ashamed.”

²⁰tn Grk “coming, Jesus spoke to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn, “saying”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.