1 Samuel 16:9

Then Ishai made Shammah come. And he said, Neither yet hath the Lord chosen him.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

In Context

8Then Ishai called Abinadab, and made him come before Samuel. And he saide, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

10Againe Ishai made his seue sonnes to come before Samuel: and Samuel saide vnto Ishai, The Lord hath chosen none of these.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:13And the three eldest sonnes of Ishai went and followed Saul to the battel: and the names of his three sonnes that went to battell, were Eliab the Eldest, and the next Abinadab, and the thirde Shammah.

1 Kings 4:11The sonne of Abinadab in all the region of Dor, which had Taphath the daughter of Salomon to wife.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 16:7-14

David Anointed by Samuel. ( b. c. 1065.) 6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord 's anointed is before him. 7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 9 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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