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And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil and go; I will send thee to Jesse of Bethlehem for I have provided me a king among his sons.
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And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul understands
it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with thee and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
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And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do, and thou shalt anoint unto me the one whom I name unto thee.
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And Samuel did as the LORD said and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said, Comest thou peaceably?
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And he said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice.
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And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab and said, Peradventure is the LORD’s anointed before him?
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And the LORD replied unto Samuel, Do not look on his countenance or on the height of his stature because I have refused him, for it is not as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
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Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this one.