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Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
16:2
Waiting
Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
16:3
Waiting
Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
16:4
Waiting
Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
16:5
Waiting
He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
16:6
Waiting
It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
16:7
Waiting
But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
16:8
Waiting
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
16:9
Waiting
Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
16:10
Waiting
Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
16:11
Waiting
Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he come here.
16:12
Waiting
He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
16:13
Waiting
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
16:14
Waiting
Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
16:15
Waiting
Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
16:16
Waiting
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
16:17
Waiting
Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.
16:18
Waiting
Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
16:19
Waiting
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
16:20
Waiting
Jesse took a donkey [laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
16:21
Waiting
David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
16:22
Waiting
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
16:23
Waiting
It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.