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- 1 Samuel 15:20
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“But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
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- 1 Samuel 15:22
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But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
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- 1 Samuel 15:24
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Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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- 1 Samuel 15:26
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“I will not return with you,” Samuel replied. “For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and He has rejected you as king over Israel.”
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- 1 Samuel 15:28
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So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.
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- 1 Samuel 15:30
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“I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
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- 1 Samuel 15:32
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Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
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- 1 Samuel 15:33
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But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
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- 1 Samuel 16:1
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Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:2
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“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’
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- 1 Samuel 16:3
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Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you are to do. You are to anoint for Me the one I indicate.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:4
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So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
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- 1 Samuel 16:5
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“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
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- 1 Samuel 16:6
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When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:7
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But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:8
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Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:9
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Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:10
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Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel told him, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:11
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And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:12
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So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:15
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Saul’s servants said to him, “Surely a spirit of distress from God is tormenting you.
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- 1 Samuel 16:16
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Let our lord command your servants here to seek out someone who can skillfully play the harp. Whenever the spirit of distress from God is upon you, he is to play it, and you will be well.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:17
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And Saul commanded his servants, “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him to me.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:18
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One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:19
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So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:22
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Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:8
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And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
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- 1 Samuel 17:10
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Then the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day! Give me a man to fight!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:17
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One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
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- 1 Samuel 17:25
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Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:26
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David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
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- 1 Samuel 17:27
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The people told him about the offer, saying, “That is what will be done for the man who kills him.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:28
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Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:29
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“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”
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- 1 Samuel 17:30
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Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.
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- 1 Samuel 17:32
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And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:33
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But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:34
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David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
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- 1 Samuel 17:37
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David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:39
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David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.
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- 1 Samuel 17:43
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“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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- 1 Samuel 17:44
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“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:45
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But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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- 1 Samuel 17:55
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As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:56
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“Find out whose son this young man is!” said the king.
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- 1 Samuel 17:58
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“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
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- 1 Samuel 18:7
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And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”
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- 1 Samuel 18:8
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And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
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- 1 Samuel 18:11
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and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
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- 1 Samuel 18:17
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Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
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