1 Chronicles 11:2

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In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.

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  • 2 Sam 5:2 : 2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.
  • 2 Sam 7:7 : 7 In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?
  • Ps 78:71 : 71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.
  • Matt 2:6 : 6 You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.
  • John 10:4 : 4 When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.
  • Jer 3:15 : 15 And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
  • Mic 5:2 : 2 For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.
  • Mic 5:4 : 4 And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
  • 1 Kgs 14:7 : 7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,
  • Num 27:17 : 17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.
  • 1 Sam 16:1 : 1 And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.
  • 1 Sam 16:13 : 13 Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.
  • 1 Sam 18:13 : 13 So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 5:1-3
    3 verses
    95%

    1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

    2 In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

  • 1 Chr 17:7-8
    2 verses
    81%

    7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

    8 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

  • 2 Sam 7:8-9
    2 verses
    81%

    8 Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

    9 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

  • 1 Sam 15:17
    79%

    17 And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel,

  • 1 Chr 11:3
    79%

    3 So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:37-38
    2 verses
    79%

    37 And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

    38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

  • 1 Chr 11:1
    78%

    1 Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

  • 1 Sam 15:1
    77%

    1 And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 12:7
    76%

    7 And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

  • 1 Sam 12:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • 2 Sam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 Then Abner had a talk with the chief men of Israel, saying, In the past it was your desire to make David your king: so now, do it:

    18 For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

  • 1 Sam 25:30
    75%

    30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

  • 2 Sam 7:11
    74%

    11 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will give you peace from all who are against you. And the Lord says to you that he will make you the head of a line of kings.

  • 1 Kgs 1:35
    74%

    35 Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.

  • 1 Sam 12:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 And Samuel said to all Israel, You see that I have given ear to everything you said to me, and have made a king over you.

    2 And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
    74%

    17 And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;

  • 1 Sam 10:1
    74%

    1 Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:

  • Hos 13:10
    73%

    10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

  • 1 Sam 9:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and on him you are to put the holy oil, making him ruler over my people Israel, and he will make my people safe from the hands of the Philistines: for I have seen the sorrow of my people, whose cry has come up to me.

    17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.

  • 1 Sam 13:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

    14 But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    73%

    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 2 Sam 3:10
    73%

    10 And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!

  • 1 Chr 28:4
    73%

    4 Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

  • 1 Sam 12:6
    73%

    6 And Samuel said to the people, The Lord is witness, who gave authority to Moses and Aaron, and who took your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Sam 2:7
    73%

    7 Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

  • Deut 17:14
    72%

    14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • 1 Kgs 10:9
    72%

    9 May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.

  • 1 Sam 16:3
    72%

    3 And send for Jesse to be present at the offering, and I will make clear to you what you are to do: and you are to put the holy oil on him whose name I give you.

  • 1 Chr 17:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

    11 And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

    16 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

  • 1 Sam 28:2
    72%

    2 And David said to Achish, You will see now what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Then I will make you keeper of my head for ever.

  • 1 Sam 18:13
    72%

    13 So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.

  • 2 Chr 9:8
    71%

    8 Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

  • 2 Sam 2:9
    71%

    9 And made him king over Gilead and the Asherites and over Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin, that is, over all Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
    71%

    25 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
    71%

    8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
    71%

    16 From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    71%

    19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.