1 Samuel 15:30   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Saul replied, "I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel; come back with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God."

1 Samuel 15:33   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women." And Samuel put Agag to death before the Lord at Gilgal.

1 Samuel 16:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king."

1 Samuel 16:2   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

But Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me." The Lord said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.'

1 Samuel 16:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate."

1 Samuel 16:4   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Samuel did what the Lord said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, "Do you come in peace?"

1 Samuel 16:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Samuel replied, "Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me." Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 16:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?" "There is still the youngest," Jesse answered. "He is tending the sheep." Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives."

1 Samuel 16:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Saul's attendants said to him, "See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.

1 Samuel 16:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better."

1 Samuel 16:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

1 Samuel 16:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 16)

So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

1 Samuel 17:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17:9   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us."

1 Samuel 17:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul,

1 Samuel 17:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Now Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

1 Samuel 17:18   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.

1 Samuel 17:25   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Now the Israelites had been saying, "Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel."

1 Samuel 17:28   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."

1 Samuel 17:32   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."

1 Samuel 17:33   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Saul replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth."

1 Samuel 17:34   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,

1 Samuel 17:36   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

1 Samuel 17:37   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you."