and ordered him to be anointed king of Israel, see Sa1 16:10 , and that for ever, for a long time, as long as he lived; or rather in his posterity for many years to come, and best of all in his antitype Christ, the son of David, see Luk 1:32 . for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; the tribe of Judah to be the seat of government, and one out of that tribe to be the chief ruler, see Ch1 5:2 . and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; out of that tribe he chose his father's family, to take from thence one to be king of Israel: and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel; though the youngest of them, Sa1 16:11 , this was his will and pleasure.