<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will reign forever and ever!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Look, a king will promote fairness;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">officials will promote justice.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the people said to Samuel, &#8220;Who were the ones asking, &#8216;Will Saul reign over us?&#8217; Hand over those men so we may execute them!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> rules forever,p> <p class="poetry">your God, O Zion, throughout the generations to come!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

So now do as they say.<n id="1" /> But seriously warn<n id="2" /> them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

He said, &#8220;Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, &#8216;No! A king will rule over us&#8217; &#8211; even though the <sc>Lordsc> your God is your king!

She replied to him, &#8220;My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the <sc>Lordsc> your God, &#8216;Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.&#8217;

Nathan said, &#8220;My master, O king, did you announce, &#8216;Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne&#8217;?

Then follow him up as he comes and sits on my throne. He will be king in my place; I have decreed<n id="1" /> that he will be ruler over Israel and Judah.&#8221;

Visit<n id="1" /> King David and say to him, &#8216;My master, O king, did you not solemnly promise<n id="2" /> your servant, &#8220;Surely your son Solomon will be king after me; he will sit on my throne&#8221;? So why has Adonijah become king?&#8217;

I will keep<n id="1" /> today the oath I swore to you by the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel: &#8216;Surely Solomon your son will be king after me; he will sit in my place on my throne.&#8217;&#8221;

So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him up as a burnt sacrifice on the wall. There was an outburst of divine anger against Israel,<n id="1" /> so they broke off the attack<n id="2" /> and returned to their homeland.p>

and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;The king&#8217;s son will rule, just as the <sc>Lordsc> promised David&#8217;s descendants.