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1 Samuel 16:2-4
New King James Version
1 Samuel 16:2-4
New King James Version
2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”
But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, (A)‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”
4 So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town (B)trembled at his coming, and said, (C)“Do you come peaceably?”
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