1 Samuel 16:1
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16 1 Samuel is reproved of God, and is sent to anoint David. 7 God regardeth the heart. 13 The Spirit of the Lord cometh upon David. 14 The wicked Spirit is sent upon Saul. 19 Saul sendeth for David.
1 The Lord then said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, [a]seeing I have cast him away from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil and come, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a King among his sons.
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- 1 Samuel 16:1 Signifying, that we ought not to show ourselves more pitiful than God, nor to lament them whom he casteth out.
1 Samuel 17:12
1599 Geneva Bible
12 ¶ Now this David was the (A)son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, named Jesse, which had eight sons: and [a]this man was taken for an old man in the days of Saul.
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- 1 Samuel 17:12 Or, he was counted among them that bare office.
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