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== Anointing by the prophet Samuel == | == Anointing by the prophet Samuel == | ||
When the disobedient King Saul rejected the word of the L<small>ORD</small> and the L<small>ORD</small> rejected him from being king, “for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry,”<ref>1 Sam. 15:22.</ref> the L<small>ORD</small> directed [[Samuel]] to fill his horn with oil and go to the house of Jesse the Bethlemite, for among his sons he would find the next king. | When the disobedient King Saul rejected the word of the L<small>ORD</small> and the L<small>ORD</small> rejected him from being king, “for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and [[idolatry]],”<ref>1 Sam. 15:22.</ref> the L<small>ORD</small> directed [[Samuel]] to fill his horn with oil and go to the house of Jesse the Bethlemite, for among his sons he would find the next king. | ||
After Samuel called Jesse’s family to sacrifice, the prophet looked at one of his sons, Eliab, thinking this was surely the L<small>ORD</small>’s anointed.<ref>1 Sam. 16:1, 5, 6.</ref> “But the L<small>ORD</small> said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the L<small>ORD</small> seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L<small>ORD</small> looketh on the heart.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:7, 10.</ref> Not until Jesse’s youngest son, David, stood before Samuel, did the L<small>ORD</small> tell him, “Arise, anoint him: for this is he.” When Samuel anointed David, “the spirit of the L<small>ORD</small> came upon David from that day forward.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:12, 13.</ref> | After Samuel called Jesse’s family to sacrifice, the prophet looked at one of his sons, Eliab, thinking this was surely the L<small>ORD</small>’s anointed.<ref>1 Sam. 16:1, 5, 6.</ref> “But the L<small>ORD</small> said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the L<small>ORD</small> seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the L<small>ORD</small> looketh on the heart.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:7, 10.</ref> Not until Jesse’s youngest son, David, stood before Samuel, did the L<small>ORD</small> tell him, “Arise, anoint him: for this is he.” When Samuel anointed David, “the spirit of the L<small>ORD</small> came upon David from that day forward.”<ref>1 Sam. 16:12, 13.</ref> | ||