Samuel Goes to Bethlehem

16 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “(A)How long are you going to mourn for [a]Saul, since (B)I have rejected him from being king over Israel? (C)Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to (D)Jesse the Bethlehemite, because I have (E)chosen a king for Myself among his sons.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:1 I.e., God’s rejection of Saul

13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and (A)anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and (B)the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

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