1 Kings 2:16

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

When they had gone over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, ‘Long live king Solomon!’

Then she said, “I ask one small petition of you; don’t deny me.” The king said to her, “Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.”

“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.

“Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.

James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

He allowed no one to follow him, except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.