Bible Verses About Promotion: General references

For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,

But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.

He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung,

That he may set him with the princes, euen with the princes of his people.