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So Samuel did what Yahweh said. He came to Bethlehem, and the elders of the city came trembling to meet him. They said, “Have you come in peace?”[a] He said, “I come in peace. I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

When they came,[b] he[c] saw Eliab and said, “Surely his anointed one is before Yahweh!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:4 Literally “Is your coming peace?”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:6 Literally “And it happened at their coming”
  3. 1 Samuel 16:6 That is, Samuel