³ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. ^(A)And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”

¹⁶ “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, ^(A)and you shall anoint him to be prince^[a] over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. ^(B)For I have seen^[b] my people, because their cry has come to me.”

^15 (A)You shall speak to him and ^(B)put the words in his mouth, and ^(C)I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.

⁶ But ^(A)rise and enter the city, and you will be told ^(B)what you are to do.”

Laws Concerning Israel's Kings

¹⁴ “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ^(A)‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ ¹⁵ you may indeed set a king over you ^(B)whom the Lord your God will choose. One ^(C)from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

22 And again Jesus ^(A)spoke to them in parables, saying, ^2 (B)“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave ^(C)a wedding feast for his son, ³ and ^(D)sent his servants^[a] to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. ^4 (E)Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my ^(F)dinner, ^(G)my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’

¹¹ With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem ^(A)who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.

¹² And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ^(A)ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, ^(B)“Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” ¹³ Then Samuel took ^(C)the horn of oil ^(D)and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. ^(E)And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

¹² They answered, “He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people ^(A)have a sacrifice today on ^(B)the high place. ¹³ As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”