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Yahweh said to Samuel, 'How much longer do you mean to go on mourning over Saul, now that I myself have rejected him as ruler of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have found myself a king from among his sons.' (1 Samuel 16, 1)
'Yes,' he replied. 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Purify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.' He purified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. (1 Samuel 16, 5)
Jesse thus presented seven of his sons to Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, 'Yahweh has not chosen these.' (1 Samuel 16, 10)
He then asked Jesse, 'Are these all the sons you have?' Jesse replied, 'There is still one left, the youngest; he is looking after the sheep.' Samuel then said to Jesse, 'Send for him, for we shall not sit down to eat until he arrives.' (1 Samuel 16, 11)
At this, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him, surrounded by his brothers; and the spirit of Yahweh seized on David from that day onwards. Samuel, for his part, set off and went to Ramah. (1 Samuel 16, 13)
One of the servants then spoke up and said, 'I have seen one of the sons of Jesse the Bethlehemite: he is a skilled player, a brave man and a fighter, well spoken, good-looking and Yahweh is with him.' (1 Samuel 16, 18)
So Saul sent messengers to Jesse with the order, 'Send me your son David (who is with the sheep).' (1 Samuel 16, 19)
Jesse took five loaves, a skin of wine and a kid, and sent them to Saul by his son David. (1 Samuel 16, 20)
David went to Saul and entered his service; Saul became very fond of him and David became his armour-bearer. (1 Samuel 16, 21)
Saul then sent a message to Jesse, 'Let David stay in my service, since he has won my favour.' (1 Samuel 16, 22)
And whenever the spirit from God came over Saul, David would take a harp and play; Saul would then be soothed; it would do him good, and the evil spirit would leave him. (1 Samuel 16, 23)
David was the son of an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah whose name was Jesse; Jesse had eight sons and, by Saul's time, he was old and well on in years. (1 Samuel 17, 12)
