June 14 – Wisdom Over Anger

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 14th.

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Wisdom over anger.
Life can feel like a storm

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sometimes.
Maybe it’s a parent who doesn’t

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understand you, a sibling who
drives you absolutely crazy, a

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friend who betrayed your trust,
a situation at school that feels

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completely unfair.
And in those moments, the

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pressure to react, to say
something sharp, to fight back,

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to let people know exactly how
you feel is intense.

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Proverbs chapter 17, verses 25
to 27 give us a picture of what

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wisdom looks like in those
moments.

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One who has knowledge restrains
his words, and a man of

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understanding is calm,
restraint, calmness.

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These aren’t signs of weakness
or passivity.

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They’re signs of a person who
knows who they are, who their

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God is, and that not every
moment requires a reaction.

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David describes the opposite
feeling in Psalm 69 verses one

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and two.
Save me, oh God, for the waters

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have come up to my neck.
I sink in deep mire where there

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is no foothold.
He feels completely overwhelmed,

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like he’s drowning, and he
doesn’t pretend otherwise.

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He doesn’t perform.
He goes directly to God with the

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full weight of it.
That honesty with God in the

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middle of being overwhelmed is
not weakness, it’s wisdom.

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It’s saying, I can’t handle this
alone and I’m not going to

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pretend I can.
And then there’s one of the most

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powerful verses in all of
Scripture for those who feel

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judged by appearances or
misunderstood by people.

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First Samuel chapter 16 verse 7,
God speaks to Samuel and says do

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not look on his appearance or on
the height of his stature

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because I have rejected him.
For the Lord sees not as man

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sees.
Man looks on the outward

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appearance, but the Lord looks
on the heart.

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God is not evaluating you by
your performance, your grades,

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your social status or how you
look in front of people.

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He sees your heart.
So here’s the invitation.

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When life brings storms, bring
them to God before you bring

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them to your social media.
Respond rather than react.

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Choose calm over conflict.
Let people misunderstand you if

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they need to, because the One
who truly sees you sees

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everything, and he’s working
something in you, even in the

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hard moments.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
seeing our hearts and not just

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our behavior when we feel
overwhelmed.

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Teach us to bring that to You
before we react.

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Help us to restrain our words
when anger wants to take over

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and to trust that you are
working even in the middle of

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our storms.
Guard our hearts in our mouths

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and help us respond with wisdom
in Jesus name, Amen.

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Proverbs Chapter 17 Verses 25 to

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26 World English Bible A foolish
son brings grief to his father

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and bitterness to her who bore
him.

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Also to punish the righteous is
not good, nor to flog officials

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for their integrity.
Psalm Chapter 69 World English

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Bible Save me God, for the
waters have come up to my neck.

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I sink in deep mire where there
is no foothold.

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I have come into deep waters
where the floods overflow me.

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I am weary with my crying.
My throat is dry, My eyes fail

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looking for my God.
Those who hate me without a

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cause are more than the hairs of
my head.

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Those who want to cut me off,
being my enemies wrongfully, are

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mighty.
I have to restore what I didn’t

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take away.
God, you know my foolishness.

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My sins aren’t hidden from you.
Don’t let those who wait for you

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be shamed through me.
Lord Yahweh of armies, don’t let

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those who seek you be brought to
dishonor through me, God of

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Israel, because for your sake I
have borne reproach.

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Shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my

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brothers, an alien to my
mother’s children, For the zeal

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of your house consumes me.
The reproaches of those who

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reproach you have fallen on me.
When I wept and I fasted, that

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was to my reproach.
When I made sackcloth my

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clothing, I became a byword to
them.

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Those who sit in the gate talk
about me.

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I am the song of the drunkards.
But As for me, my prayer is to

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you, Yahweh, in an acceptable
time.

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God, in the abundance of Your
loving kindness, answer me.

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In the truth of Your salvation,
Deliver me out of the mire and

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don’t let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those

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who hate me and out of the deep
waters.

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Don’t let the flood waters
overwhelm me, neither Let the

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deep swallow me up.
Don’t let the pit shut its mouth

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on me.
Answer me, Yahweh, for Your

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loving kindness is good.
According to the multitude of

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Your tender mercies.
Turn to me.

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Don’t hide Your face from Your
servant, for I am in distress.

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Answer me speedily.
Draw near to my soul and redeem

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it.
Ransom me because of my enemies.

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You know my reproach, my shame,
and my dishonor.

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My adversaries are all before
you.

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Reproach has broken my heart,
and I am full of heaviness.

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I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none for

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comforters.
But I found none.

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They also gave me poison for my
food.

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In my thirst.
They gave me vinegar to drink.

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Let their table before them
become a snare.

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May it become a retribution and
a trap.

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Let their eyes be darkened so
that they can’t see.

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Let their backs be continually
bent.

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Pour out your indignation on
them.

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Let the fierceness of your anger
overtake them.

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Let their habitation be
desolate.

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Let no one dwell in their tents,
for they persecute him whom you

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have wounded.
They tell of the sorrow of those

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whom you have hurt.
Charge them with crime upon

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crime.
Don’t let them come into your

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righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the

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book of life and not be written
with the righteous.

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But I am in pain and distress.
Let your salvation God protect

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me.
I will praise the name of God

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with a song and will magnify him
with Thanksgiving.

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It will please Yahweh better
than an ox or a bull that has

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horns and hoofs.
The humble have seen it and are

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glad.
You who seek after God, let your

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heart live.
For Yahweh hears the needy and

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doesn’t despise his captive
people.

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Let heaven and earth praise Him,
the seas and everything that

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moves therein.
For God will save Zion and build

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the cities of Judah.
They shall settle there and own

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it.
The children also of His

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servants shall inherit it.
Those who love His name shall

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dwell therein.
First Samuel chapter 16 World

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English Bible Yahweh said to
Samuel, How long will you mourn

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for Saul, since I have rejected
him from being king over Israel?

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Fill your horn with oil and go.
I will send you to Jesse the

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Bethlehemite, for I have
provided a king for myself among

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his sons.
Samuel said How can I go?

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If Saul hears it, he will kill
me.

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Yahweh said Take a heifer with
you and say I have come to

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sacrifice to Yahweh.
Call Jesse to the sacrifice and

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I will show you what you shall
do.

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You shall anoint to me him whom
I name to you.

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Samuel did that which Yahweh
spoke and came to Bethlehem.

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The elders of the city came to
meet him trembling and said, Do

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you come peaceably?
He said peaceably I have come to

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sacrifice to Yahweh, Sanctify
yourselves and come with me to

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the sacrifice.
He sanctified Jesse and his sons

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and called them to the
sacrifice.

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When they had come, he looked at
a leab and said, Surely Yahweh’s

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anointed is before him.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, don’t

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look on his face or on the
height of his stature, because I

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have rejected him.
For I don’t see as man sees, For

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man looks at the outward
appearance, but Yahweh looks at

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the heart.
Then Jesse called AB an adab and

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made him pass before Samuel.
He said, Yahweh has not chosen

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this one either.
Then Jesse made Shama to pass

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by.
He said Yahweh has not chosen

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this one either.
Jesse made seven of his sons to

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pass before Samuel.
Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has

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not chosen these.
Samuel said to Jesse, are all

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your children here?
He said, there remains yet the

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youngest.
Behold, he is keeping the sheep.

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Samuel said to Jesse, send and
get him, for we will not sit

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down until he comes here.
He sent and brought him in.

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Now he was ready with a handsome
face and good appearance.

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Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him,
for this is he.

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Then Samuel took the horn of oil
and anointed him in the middle

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of his brothers.
Then Yahweh’s spirit came

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mightily on David from that day
forward.

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So Samuel rose up and went to
Rama.

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Now Yahweh’s spirit departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit

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from Yahweh troubled him.
Saul’s servant said to him, See

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now an evil spirit from God
troubles you.

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Let our Lord now command your
servants who are in front of you

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to seek out a man who is a
skillful player on the harp.

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Then when the evil spirit from
God is on you, he will play with

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his hand, and you will be well.
Saul said to his servants,

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Provide me now a man who can
play well, and bring him to me.

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Then one of the young men
answered and said, Behold, I

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have seen a son of Jesse the
Bethlehemite, who is skillful in

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playing, a mighty man of valor,
a man of war, prudent in speech,

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and a handsome person, and
Yahweh is with him.

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Therefore Saul sent messengers
to Jesse and said, Send me

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David, your son, who is with the
sheep.

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Jesse took a donkey loaded with
bread and a container of wine

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and a young goat and sent them
by David his son to Saul.

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David came to Saul and stood
before him.

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He loved him greatly and he
became his armor bearer.

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Saul sent to Jesse saying,
Please let David stand before

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me, for he has found favor in my
sight.

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When the Spirit from God was on
Saul, David took the harp and

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played with his hand.
So Saul was refreshed and was

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well, and the evil spirit
departed from him.

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