1 Samuel 17:13

When they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, “Surely Yahweh’s anointed is before him.”

Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”

The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”

Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he didn’t find her.

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”

When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your children here?” He said, “There remains yet the youngest. Behold, he is keeping the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”

He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered, “Don’t let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.

Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?” ’ ”

When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.

of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,