Bible Verses About Promotion: General references

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.