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1 Samuel 16:1-7

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David Anointed King

1 The LORD said to Samuel, 1"How long will you grieve over Saul, since 2I have rejected him from being king over Israel? 3Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, 4for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."
2 And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 5'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
3 And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. 6And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you."
4 Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city 7came to meet him trembling and said, 8"Do you come peaceably?"
5 And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. 9Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
6 When they came, he looked on 10Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
7 But the LORD said to Samuel, 11"Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, 12but the LORD looks on the heart."
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1 Samuel 16:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 16

In this chapter Samuel is ordered to anoint a king among the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem, 1Sa 16:1-5 all whose sons were made to pass before him, excepting David, 1Sa 16:6-10 who being then with his father's sheep, was sent for and was anointed, 1Sa 16:11-13, after which the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and he became melancholy, and it was advised to seek out a musician for him, and David was mentioned to him as a proper person, 1Sa 16:14-18 upon which he was sent for, and acted as a musician to Saul, and also became his armourbearer, which was the first rise of him, 1Sa 16:19-23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

  • 1. 1 Samuel 15:35
  • 2. 1 Samuel 15:23, 26
  • 3. See 1 Samuel 10:1
  • 4. Psalms 78:70; Psalms 89:19, 20; Acts 13:22
  • 5. [1 Samuel 9:12; 1 Samuel 20:29]
  • 6. 1 Samuel 9:16
  • 7. 1 Samuel 21:1
  • 8. 1 Kings 2:13; [2 Kings 9:22]
  • 9. Joshua 3:5
  • 10. 1 Samuel 17:13
  • 11. Psalms 147:10, 11
  • 12. 1 Kings 8:39; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Psalms 7:9; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 20:12; [Acts 1:24]
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