Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”
Samuel's eye was caught by Eliab's countenance and he rushed to judgment, much as he had done with Saul; but God whispered a correction: look not on the outside. Men judge by what shows, God by what is; the heart is the measure He uses, and therein lies true beauty and fitness for His service.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 16:6-13
Then Jesse called Abinadab,.... His second son, Sa1 17:13. and made him pass before Samuel: that he might take a full view of him: and he said, neither hath the Lord chosen this; which he knew by a private suggestion from him.
1Sa 16:8-10 When Jesse thereupon brought up his other sons, one after another, before Samuel, the prophet said in the case of each, “This also Jehovah hath not chosen.” As Samuel must be the subject to the verb ויּאמר in 1Sa 16:8-10, we may assume that he had communicated the object of his coming to Jesse.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 16:8-10