And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.

And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed [is] before him.

Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy, [and] withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he.

But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are] before thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.

And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son unto Saul.

And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me for he hath found favour in my sight.

And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.

And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day give me a man, that we may fight together.

Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul.

And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of [their] thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head also he armed him with a coat of mail.

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him but [there was] no sword in the hand of David.

And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem but he put his armour in his tent.

And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling [is].

And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou] young man? And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave [his] wife [behind him], and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage but are as the angels which are in heaven.

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel The Lord our God is one Lord:

And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?

David therefore himself calleth him Lord and whence is he [then] his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

And he called [unto him] his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: