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1 The LORD said to Samuel, |How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.| 2 Samuel said, |How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.| The LORD said, |Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. 3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.| 4 And Samuel did what the LORD said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling. And they said, |Is your visit peaceful, seer?| 5 And he said, |Peaceful; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves and celebrate with me today.| He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, |Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.| 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, |Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For humans do not see as God sees, for humans look at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.| 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, |Neither has the LORD chosen this one.| 9 Then Jesse made Shimeah to pass by. He said, |Neither has the LORD chosen this one.| 10 And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. Butd Samuel said, |The LORD has not chosen these.| 11 Then Samuel said to Jesse, |Are all your children here?| And he said, |There remains yet the youngest. Look, he is tending the sheep.| And Samuel said to Jesse, |Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.| 12 So he sent and brought him in. And he was reddish brown, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the LORD said, |Arise, anoint him, for he is the one.| 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. 1 Samuel 16:1-13, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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