◄ 1 Samuel 16:6 ►
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Good News Translation
When they arrived, Samuel saw Jesse's son Eliab and said to himself, "This man standing here in the LORD's presence is surely the one he has chosen."

New Revised Standard Version
When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is now before the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
When Jesse and his sons arrived, Samuel noticed Jesse's oldest son, Eliab. "He has to be the one the LORD has chosen," Samuel said to himself.

New American Bible
As they came, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the anointed is here before the LORD.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

Eliab

1 Samuel 17:13,22 And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the firstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma: . . .

1 Chronicles 2:13 And Isai begot Eliab his firstborn, the second Abinadab, the third Simmaa,

1 Chronicles 27:18 Over Juda, Eliu the brother of David over Issachar, Amri the son of Michael:

Elihu

Judges 8:18 And he said to Zebee and Salmana: What manner of men were they, whom you slew in Thabor? They answered: They were like thee, and one of them as the son of a king.

1 Kings 12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David,

Context
Samuel Anoints David
…5And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?7And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:13
And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab, the firstborn, and the second, Abinadab, and the third Samma:

1 Chronicles 28:4
But the Lord God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel for ever: for of Juda he chose the princes: and of the house of Juda, my father's house: and among the sons of my father, it pleased him to choose me king over all Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:18
And Roboam took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David: and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Isai.

Psalm 84:9
Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ.

1 Samuel 16:5
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