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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
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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."
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Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
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Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
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Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.