So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

So Samuel listened to everything the people said and then reported it to the Lord.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told Samuel:

Then the spirit of the Lord will rush upon you and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person.

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

“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle shifted over to Beth Aven.

But the army took from the plunder some of the sheep and cattle – the best of what was to be slaughtered – to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

Now please forgive my sin! Go back with me so I can worship the Lord.”

When they arrived, Samuel noticed Eliab and said to himself, “Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!”

Then Jesse presented Shammah. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.”

So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”

While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!

and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David.

But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,’ get away. For in that case the Lord has sent you away.

With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

He inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.