Bible Verses About Promotion: General references

For you will not be raised to power by those in the east, the west or the desert;

since God is the judge; and it is he who puts down one and lifts up another.

He chose David to be his servant, taking him from the sheep-yards;

from tending nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Ya'akov his people, Isra'el his heritage.

He raises the poor from the dust, lifts the needy from the rubbish heap,

in order to give him a place among princes, among the princes of his people.