Ruth 4:16-17

Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. The women living there said, "Naomi has a son!" And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

 

He was the father of Jesse

Ruth 4:22  ... Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David.

1 Samuel 16:1  The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king."

1 Samuel 16:18  One of the servants answered, "I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him."

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 very old.

1 Samuel 17:17  Now Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah (about 36 pounds or 16 kilograms) of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp."

1 Samuel 17:58  "Whose son are you, young man?" Saul asked him. David said, "I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem." 

1 Chronicles 2:12  ... Boaz the father of Obed, and Obed the father of Jesse.

Psalm 72:20  This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.

the father of David 

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 powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.

1 Chronicles 2:13-15  Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; the second son was Abinadab, the third Shimea (or Shammah in 1 Samuel), the fourth Nethanel, the fifth Raddai, the sixth Ozem and the seventh David. (though David was the eighth son, one brother has been removed from this list in order that David would occupy the favored place of seventh son in this genealogy since this book is about David's reign)

(parentheses are mine)

 

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