And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel. Genesis 3:15 (NIV)
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you. Genesis 12:3 (NIV)
Abraham Isaac Jacob Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin
Abraham Isaac Jacob Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Judges 17:6 (ESV)
In the course of time, David inquired of the Lord. 2 Samuel 2:1 (NIV)
The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker. 2 Samuel 3:1 (NIV)
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and 2 said, We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the Lord said to you, You will shepherd my people Israel, and you 3 will become their ruler. When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and 4 they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. 2 Samuel 5:1-4 (NIV)
And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almighty was with him. 2 Samuel 5:10 (NIV)
Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and 12 Amminadab the Levites. He said to them, You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. 1 Chronicles 15:11-12 (NIV)
It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do 14 it in the prescribed way. So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of 15 the Lord, the God of Israel. And the Levites carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the Lord. 1 Chronicles 15:13-15 (NIV)
When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would! David said to Michal, It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord s people Israel I will celebrate before the Lord. 21 2 Samuel 6:20-21 (NIV)
I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor. And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death. 23 2 Samuel 6:22-23 (NIV)
After the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, 2 he said to Nathan the prophet, Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent. Nathan replied to the king, Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you. 3 2 Samuel 7:1-3 (NIV)
But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: Go and tell my servant David, This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? 6 I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling. 7 Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 2 Samuel 7:4-7 (NIV) 5
Now then, tell my servant David, This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my 9 people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth. 2 Samuel 7:8-9 (NIV)
And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning 11 and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will establish a house for you. 2 Samuel 7:10-11 (NIV)
When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his 13 kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom 14 forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human 15 hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from 16 before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever. 2 Samuel 7:12-16 (NIV)
This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham... Matthew 1:1 (NIV)
...After this, God gave them judges until the time of 21 Samuel the prophet. Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of 22 Benjamin, who ruled forty years. After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do. From this man s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. 23 Acts 13:20-23 (NIV)
Christ, The King The LORD says to my lord: Sit at my right hand until 2 I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, 3 saying, Rule in the midst of your enemies! Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning s womb. Psalm 110:1-3 (NIV)
Christ, The High Priest The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek. 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings 6 on the day of his wrath. He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the 7 whole earth. He will drink from a brook along the way, and so he will lift his head high. Psalm 110:4-7 (NIV)
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, Have mercy on us, Son of David! Matthew 9:27 (NIV)
All the people were astonished and said, Could this be the Son of David? Matthew 12:23 (NIV)
A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! Matthew 15:22 (NIV)
Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, 31 Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us! The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us! Matthew 20:30-31 (NIV)
The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven! Matthew 21:9 (NIV)
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. Revelation 22:16 (NIV)