2 Chronicles 11:18

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.

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

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 three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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.”

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

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.”

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

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.

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.

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.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

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

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

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

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