16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince¹ over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For ^tI have seen² my people, because their cry has come to me.”

30 And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you ^gprince¹ over Israel,

21 And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as ^lprince¹ over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will celebrate before the Lord.

8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you ^tfrom the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be ^uprince¹ over my people Israel.

2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be ^mprince over my people Israel.’”

7 Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you ^ffrom the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ^gprince over my people Israel,

5 ^v‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I ^wchose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;