1 Samuel 16:1-2

Lexham English Bible

David Is Anointed

16 Then Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long^[a] will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons.” ² But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “You must take a heifer from the herd with you,^[b] and you must say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’