9Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)If the sons of Jesse were told that God would provide himself a king among them (as he had said, 1 Sam. 16:1), we may well suppose they all made the best appearance they could, and each hoped he should be the man; but here we are told, I. How all the elder sons, who stood fairest for the preferment, were passed by. 1. Eliab, the eldest, was privately presented first to Samuel, probably none being…
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