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1 Samuel 16 📜 📕 ↷
Samuel Anoints David
1 AND our Lord said to Samuel: How long dost thou mourn Saul, whom I have rejected that he rule not over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.📜💬📚
2 And Samuel said: How shall I go? For Saul will hear of it, and will kill me. And our Lord said: A calf of the herd shalt thou take in thy hand, and shalt say: I am come to immolate unto our Lord.📜💬📚
3 And thou shalt call Isai to the victim, and I will shew thee what thou must do, and thou shalt anoint whomsoever I shall shew to thee.📜💬📚
4 Samuel therefore did as our Lord spake to him. And he came into Bethlehem, and the ancients of the city marveled meeting him, and they said: Is thy entrance peaceable?📜💬📚
5 And he said: Peaceable: I am come to immolate unto our Lord, be ye sanctified and come with me that I may immolate. He therefore sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.📜💬📚
6 And when they were entered in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is there before our Lord his Christ?📜💬📚
7 And our Lord said to Samuel: Respect not his countenance, nor the tallness of his stature: because I have rejected him, neither do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things which appear, but our Lord beholdeth the heart.📜💬📚
8 And Isai called Aminadab, and brought him before Samuel. Who said: Neither this hath our Lord chosen.📜💬📚
9 And Isai brought Samma, of whom he said: This also hath not our Lord chosen.📜💬📚
10 Isai therefore brought his seven sons before Samuel: & Samuel said to Isai: Our Lord hath not chosen of these.📜💬📚
11 And Samuel said to Isai: Are all thy sons now fully come? Who answered: Yet there is left a little one, & he feedeth sheep. And Samuel said to Isai: Send, and bring him: for neither will we sit down till he come hither.📜💬📚
12 He sent therefore, and brought him. And he was red and beautiful to behold, and of a comely face. And our Lord said: Arise, and anoint him, for he it is.📜💬📚
13 Samuel therefore took the horn of oil, & anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of our Lord from that day & so forward was directed upon David: & Samuel rising went into Ramatha.📜💬📚
David Serves Saul
14 And the Spirit of our Lord departed from Saul, and a wicked spirit vexed him, from our Lord.📜💬📚
15 And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold an evil spirit of God vexeth thee.📜💬📚
16 Let our Lord command, and thy servants which are before thee will seek a man skillful to play on the harp, that when the evil spirit of our Lord shall take thee, he may play with his hand, and thou bear it more easily.📜💬📚
17 And Saul said to his servants: Provide me therefore some man that playeth well, and bring him to me.📜💬📚
18 And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen the son of Isai the Bethlehemite skillful to play, and very valiant in strength, and a warlike man, and wise in his words, & a beautiful man: and our Lord is with him.📜💬📚
19 Saul therefore sent messengers to Isai saying: Send unto me David thy son, which is in the pastures.📜💬📚
20 Isai therefore took an ass loaden with loaves, and a flagon of wine, and one kid of the goats, and sent it by the hand of David his son to Saul.📜💬📚
21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: but he loved him exceedingly, and was made his esquire.📜💬📚
22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand in my sight: for he hath found grace in mine eyes.📜💬📚
23 Therefore whensoever the evil spirit of our Lord caught Saul, David took his harp, & struck with his hand, & Saul was refreshed, and waxed better, for the evil spirit departed from him.📜💬📚
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