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1 Samuel 16:2-4
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2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you[a] and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out[b] to you.”

4 Samuel did what the Lord told him.[c] When he arrived in Bethlehem, the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They[d] said, “Do you come in peace?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 16:2 tn Heb “in your hand.”
  2. 1 Samuel 16:3 tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”
  3. 1 Samuel 16:4 tn Heb “said.”
  4. 1 Samuel 16:4 tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).
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