1 Samuel 16:6 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 16:6

When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah’s anointed is before him.

KJV

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And it came to pass, when they were come,.... Jesse and his sons, into the house where the entertainment was; and perhaps before they sat down, went into a private apartment by the direction of Samuel, where he acquainted Jesse with the business he came upon: that he looked on Eliab; who was Jesse's firstborn, 1Ch 2:13, called Elihu, 1Ch 27:18. and said, surely the Lord's anointed is before him; or this is the person it is his pleasure should be anointed king.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Samuel said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him--Here Samuel, in consequence of taking his impressions from the external appearance, falls into the same error as formerly (1Sa 10:24).

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְּבוֹאָ֔ם	be.vo.'Am	when came they	H935 →
וַיַּ֖רְא	vai.Yar'	and he saw	H7200 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֱלִיאָ֑ב	'e.li.'Av	Eliab	H446 →
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אַ֛ךְ	'akh	surely	H389 →
נֶ֥גֶד	Ne.ged	[is] before	H5048 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מְשִׁיחֽוֹ׃	me.shi.Cho	anointed his	H4899 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 17:13
The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:28
  Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Chronicles 2:13
  Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,
Through
Judges 8:18
Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”
leads to
- Judges 4:6
  She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten…
Through
1 Chronicles 2:13
Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:13
  The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
- 1 Chronicles 27:18
  over Judah was Elihu, one of David’s brothers; over Issachar was Omri son of Michael;
- 1 Samuel 16:6–13
  When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”
Through
1 Kings 12:26
Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 20:20
  Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the…
- 1 Samuel 27:1
  David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the…