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1 Samuel 16:4-7

1 Samuel 16:4-7 CSB

Samuel did what the LORD directed and went to Bethlehem.  When the elders of the town met him, they trembled  and asked, “Do  you come in peace? ”  “In peace,” he replied. “I’ve come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves  and come with me to the sacrifice.”  Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab  and said, “Certainly the LORD’s anointed one is here before him.” But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or his stature because I have rejected him. Humans do not see what the LORD sees,  for humans see what is visible, but the LORD sees the heart.”