1 Samuel 16:11-20
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Chapter 16
11Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here." 12And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he." 13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
14Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
15And Saul 's servants said to him, "Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.
16Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well."
17So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me."
18One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him."
19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."
20And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
