Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”
And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
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