15 you may indeed set a king over you ^xwhom the Lord your God will choose. ^yOne from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

10 And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”

6 let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may ^xhang them before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

4 Yet the Lord God of Israel ^vchose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose ^wJudah as leader, and in the house of Judah ^xmy father’s house, and ^yamong my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

Offerings for the Temple

1 And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, ^vwhom alone God has chosen, ^wis young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.