1. Ruth 4:13 
The Genealogy of David
2. Ruth 4:17
The women living there said, "Naomi has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
3. Ruth 4:22
and Jesse the father of David.
4. 1 Samuel 16:1
Samuel Anoints David
5. 1 Samuel 16:13
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah.
6. 1 Samuel 16:14
David in Saul's Service
7. 1 Samuel 16:19
Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."
8. 1 Samuel 16:20
So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.
9. 1 Samuel 16:21
David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers.
10. 1 Samuel 16:22
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, "Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him."
11. 1 Samuel 16:23
Whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.
12. 1 Samuel 17:1
David and Goliath
13. 1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was old and well advanced in years.
14. 1 Samuel 17:14
David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul,
15. 1 Samuel 17:15
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16. 1 Samuel 17:17
Now Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
17. 1 Samuel 17:20
Early in the morning David left the flock with a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.
18. 1 Samuel 17:22
David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and greeted his brothers.
19. 1 Samuel 17:23
As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it.
20. 1 Samuel 17:26
David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
21. 1 Samuel 17:28
When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."
22. 1 Samuel 17:29
"Now what have I done?" said David. "Can't I even speak?"
23. 1 Samuel 17:31
What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
24. 1 Samuel 17:32
David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."
25. 1 Samuel 17:34
But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,
26. 1 Samuel 17:37
Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you."
27. 1 Samuel 17:38
Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head.
28. 1 Samuel 17:39
David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.
29. 1 Samuel 17:41
Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David.
30. 1 Samuel 17:42
He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him.
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