And he answered, Yea: I am come to do 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.

And when they were come, he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s [a]Anointed is before him.

But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature, because I have refused him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord beholdeth the (A)heart.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:6 Thinking that Eliab had been appointed of God to be made King.

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