Samuel: Jehovah’s Choice of David

Minister:
Date: PM
Text: I Samuel 16:1-13
Psalters: 388, 214, 220, 318
  1. Jehovah’s command.
    1. Samuel had been mourning (Hebrew implies a continuing activity) for 15 years “for Saul.” Why?
    2. Jehovah’s command answered Samuel’s grief and fears: I have “provided Me a king” from among the sons of Jesse.
  2. Jehovah’s choice for King of His people is one whose heart is right.
    1. Samuel drew an immediate choice of Eliab when Jesse came to the sacrifice and presented his oldest son.
    2. God instructs Samuel not to look on what the eyes can see, for Jehovah looks on the heart.
    3. Jesse passes his oldest seven sons before Samuel, but “neither hath Jehovah chosen this” (8-10).
    4. What was in David’s heart, which God saw and which qualified him for the office of king over God’s kingdom?
  3. So Samuel anointed him from among his brethren, and the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day forward (13).
    1. Anointing speaks to divine selection and qualification (Psalm 89:20).
    2. Jehovah equipped David for difficulties and conflict.