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And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou 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 Bethlehemite, for among his sons I have provided me a king. |
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And Samuel said, How can I go? Saul will hear and kill me. The Lord said, Take in thine hand a heifer from the herd, and say, `I have come to sacrifice to the Lord '; |
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And call Jesse to the sacrifice; I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I shall tell thee. |
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And Samuel did as the Lord said to him. When he came to Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Do you come peaceably? |
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And he said, Peaceably: to sacrifice to the LORD came to me; Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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And when they came, he saw Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before Him! |
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But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; I have rejected him; I [do not look so] as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. |
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And Jesse called Abinadab, and brought him to Samuel, and Samuel said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. |
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And Jesse led the summit and said, [Samuel]: and the LORD chosen this. |
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So let Samuel Jesse seven of his sons, but Samuel said to Jesse, [one] of the LORD has not chosen. |
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And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all the children here? And he said, There remains yet the youngest; he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down till he come hither. |
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And he sent [Jesse], and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a pleasant face. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he. |
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Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward; Samuel got up and went to Ramah.
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And the Lord departed from Saul Spirit, and troubled him an evil spirit from the Lord. |
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And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee; |
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Let our lord now command thy servants, [that] before you, look for a man skilled in playing the harp, and when you come to the evil spirit from God, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be. |
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And Saul said unto his servants to me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. |
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Then one of his servants said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who knows how to play, and a brave man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him. |
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And Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep. |
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And Jesse took an ass with bread, and a bottle of wine and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul. |
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And David came to Saul and stood before him: and he loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer. |
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And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David before me, for he has found favor in my eyes. |
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And when the spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, played --and, It was getting better and Saul, and the evil spirit departed from him. |
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