2 Samuel 5:3-4 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David mad a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and h reigned forty years....

1 Samuel 26:23 “May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.” After serving for 40 years on the African mission field, Henry C. Morrison returned...

1 Samuel 24:17-18 Then [Saul] said to David: “You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil. And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the Lord delivered me into your hand,...

1 Samuel 24:6-7 And he said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.” So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not...

1 Samuel 22:21-23 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the Lord’s priests. So David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have caused the death of all the persons of you father’s house. Stay with...

1 Samuel 22:1-2 David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to...

1 Samuel 20:3 Then David took an oath again, and said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he says, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but...

1 Samuel 18:22-23 And Saul commanded his servants, “Communicate with David secretly, an say, ‘Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’” So Saul’s servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, “Does it seem...

1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a covenant as a “formal, solemn, and binding agreement” and an “agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties especially for the performance of...

1 Samuel 17:47 “Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.” When King George VI gave his Christmas address to the British people in 1939, World War II...