He said, “In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. (A)Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

When they entered, he looked at (B)Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for [a]God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, (C)but the Lord looks at the heart.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:7 So with Gr; Heb He does not see what man sees