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Sh'mu'el said to Sha'ul, " Adonai sent me to anoint you king over his people, over Isra'el. Now listen to what Adonai has to say.

Sh'mu'el got up early in the morning to meet Sha'ul; however, Sh'mu'el was told, "Sha'ul came to Karmel to set up a monument for himself there, but now he has left and is on his way down to Gilgal."

As Sh'mu'el was turning around to leave, he took hold of the hem of his cloak, and it tore.

Moreover, the Eternal One of Isra'el will not lie or change his mind, because he isn't a mere human being subject to changing his mind."

Sh'mu'el returned to Ramah, and Sha'ul went up to his house in Giv‘at-Sha'ul.

Adonai said to Sh'mu'el, "How much longer are you going to go on grieving for Sha'ul, now that I have rejected him as king over Isra'el? Fill your horn with oil, and set out; I will send you to Yishai the Beit-Lachmi, because I have chosen myself a king from among his sons."

He answered, "In peace. I have come to sacrifice to Adonai . Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He consecrated Yishai and his sons and summoned them to the sacrifice.

Yishai presented seven of his sons to Sh'mu'el; but Sh'mu'el told Yishai, " Adonai has not chosen these.

Sh'mu'el took the horn of oil and anointed him there in his brothers' presence. From that day on, the Spirit of Adonai would fall upon David with power. So Sh'mu'el set out and went to Ramah.

Sha'ul said to his servants, "Find me a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

One of the young men answered, "Here, I've seen one of the sons of Yishai the Beit-Lachmi who knows how to play. He's a brave soldier, he can fight, he chooses his words carefully and he's pleasant-looking. Besides, Adonai is with him."

Yishai took a donkey, loaded it with bread, a bottle of wine and a kid, and sent them with David his son to Sha'ul.

David came to Sha'ul and presented himself to him. Sha'ul took a great liking to him and made him his armor-bearer.

He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore a bronze armor plate weighing 120 pounds.

He had bronze armor protecting his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.

The shaft of his spear was as big as a weaver's beam, and the iron spearhead weighed fifteen pounds. His shield-bearer went ahead of him.

Yishai's three oldest sons had followed Sha'ul to battle; the names of his three sons who went to battle were Eli'av the firstborn, next to him Avinadav, and the third Shammah.

David went back and forth from Sha'ul to pasture his father's sheep at Beit-Lechem.

Meanwhile, the P'lishti approached with his challenge every morning and evening for forty days.

Yishai said to David his son, "Please take your brothers five bushels of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread; hurry, and carry them to your brothers at the camp.