1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 17:12; Ruth 4:18–22; 1 Chronicles 2:1–15

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1 Samuel 16:1

David Anointed King

1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have urejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”


1 Samuel 17:12

12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of kBethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.1


Ruth 4:18–22

The Genealogy of David

18 lNow these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, 19 Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab, 20 Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, 21 Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed, 22 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.


1 Chronicles 2:1–15

A Genealogy of David

1 wThese are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 3 xThe sons of Judah: yEr, zOnan and aShelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. bNow Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. 4 His daughter-in-law cTamar also bore him dPerez and eZerah. Judah had five sons in all.

5 fThe sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, gEthan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. 7 The son1 of Carmi: hAchan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing; 8 and Ethan’s son was Azariah.

9 The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. 10 Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. 11 Nahshon fathered Salmon,2 Salmon fathered Boaz, 12 Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse. 13 Jesse fathered iEliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, 14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.