1 Samuel 16:6-9
6When they came, he looked on aEliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.” 7But the Lord said to Samuel, b“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, cbut the Lord looks on the heart.” 8Then Jesse called dAbinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.” 9Then Jesse made eShammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”1 Samuel 17:28
28Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”1 Chronicles 2:13
13 fJesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, gShimea the third,
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