These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 16
Tanakh 23 verses
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And said unto : ‘How long wilt thou mourn for , seeing I have rejected him from being over ? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided Me a among his sons.’
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1 Samuel 15:35 1 Samuel 15:23 1 Samuel 10:1 1 Samuel 9:16 2 Kings 9:1 Romans 15:12 1 Samuel 15:26 1 Samuel 13:13-14 Psalm 78:68-71 Isaiah 11:10 Isaiah 55:4 Psalm 89:19-20 Ruth 4:17-22 2 Kings 9:6 1 Samuel 16:23 2 Kings 9:3 Genesis 49:8-10 Isaiah 11:1 1 Samuel 15:11 1 Chronicles 2:10-15 1 Samuel 16:15 Acts 13:21-22 Jeremiah 7:16 Jeremiah 11:14 Jeremiah 14:11-12 1 John 5:16 Jeremiah 15:1 Jeremiah 6:30 -
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And said: ‘How can I go? if it, he will kill me.’ And said: ‘Take a heifer with thee, and say: I am come to to .
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- 3 And call Jesse to the , and I will tell thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt anoint unto Me him whom I unto thee.’
- 4 And did that which spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said: ‘Comest thou peaceably?’
- 5 And he said: ‘Peaceably; I am come to unto ; sanctify yourselves and come with me to the .’ And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the .
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And it came to pass, when they were come, that he beheld Eliab, and said: ‘Surely Yahweh’S anointed is before Him.’
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But said unto : ‘Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but looketh on the .’
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John 7:24 Jeremiah 17:10 Luke 16:15 1 Chronicles 28:9 Isaiah 55:8-9 1 Kings 8:39 Proverbs 16:2 1 Peter 3:4 Psalm 147:10-11 Proverbs 31:30 1 Peter 2:4 Jeremiah 20:12 2 Chronicles 16:9 1 Samuel 10:23-24 Psalm 139:2 Acts 1:24 Proverbs 15:11 Psalm 7:9 2 Samuel 14:25 Revelation 2:23 1 Samuel 9:2 2 Corinthians 10:10 Job 10:4 2 Corinthians 10:7 Hebrews 4:13 Jeremiah 11:20 -
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Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before . And he said: ‘Neither hath chosen this.’
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Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said: ‘Neither hath chosen this.’
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And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before . And said unto Jesse: ‘The hath not chosen these.’
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And said unto Jesse: ‘Are here all thy children?’ And he said: ‘There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.’ And said unto Jesse: ‘Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.’
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- 12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon. And said: ‘Arise, anoint him; for this is he.’
- 13 Then took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the of came mightily upon from that day forward. So rose up, and went to Ramah.
- 14 Now the of had departed from , and an evil from terrified him.
- 15 And Saul’s servants said unto him: ‘Behold now, an evil from terrifieth thee.
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Let our lord now command thy servants, that are before thee, to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the harp; and it shall be, when the evil from cometh upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.’
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- 17 And said unto his servants: ‘Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.’
- 18 Then answered one of the young men, and said: ‘Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in affairs, and a comely person, and is with him.’
- 19 Wherefore sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: ‘Send me thy son, who is with the sheep.’
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And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by his son unto .
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And came to , and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.
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- 22 And sent to Jesse, saying: ‘Let , I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.’
- 23 And it came to pass, when the [evil] from was upon , that took the harp, and played with his hand; so found relief, and it was well with him, and the evil departed from him.