The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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1 Samuel 15:29 (KJV)
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

 

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1 Samuel 15:30 (KJV)
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

 

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1 Samuel 15:31(KJV)
So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

 

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1 Samuel 15:32 (ESV)
Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 15:33 (ESV)
And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 15:34 (NASB)
[SUP]34 [/SUP] Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 15:35
New International Version (NIV)

Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned for him. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

 

[slave]

[h=1](1 Samuel 16:1): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][h=3]Samuel Goes to Bethlehem[/h]16 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”

 

[slave]

[h=1](1 Samuel 16:2): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]2 But Samuel said, “How can I go? When Saul hears of it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

 

[slave]

[h=1](1 Samuel 16:3): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]3 Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.”

 

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1 Samuel 16:4 (KJV)
And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

 

[mario1001]

1 Samuel 16:5 Samuel replied, "Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

 

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1 Samuel 16:6 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 16:7 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] 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 God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 16:8 (KJV)
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

 

[willfollowsGod]

1 Samuel 16:9
New International Version (NIV)

Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Samuel 16:10 (KJV)
Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.

 

[Grace777x70]

1 Samuel 16:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the children?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."

 

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1 Samuel 16:12 (ESV)
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”

 

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1 Samuel 16:13 (KJV)
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.