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1 Samuel 16:1

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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1 Samuel 16:1

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

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1 Nephi 2 — The Wilderness Threshold, Covenant Naming, and the Younger Son
1 Nephi 21 — Isaiah 49 — The Servant's Commission, the Engraved Palms, and the Light to the Gentiles
2 Nephi 3 — Joseph of Egypt's Prophecy, the Choice Seer, and the Joining of the Two Records
2 Nephi 21 — Isaiah 11 — The Branch from the Stump of Jesse, the Sevenfold Spirit, and the Peaceable Kingdom
2 Nephi 25 — Nephi's Exposition — The Plainness, Six Hundred Years, the Name of Christ, and Grace After All We Can Do
Alma 8 — The Angel Returns — Alma Cast Out of Ammonihah and Sent Back with a Second Witness
Alma 31 — The Rameumptom — Worship Turned Inside Out, and the Prayer of a Sorrowing Heart
Alma 37 — By Small and Simple Things — The Sacred Records, the Liahona, and the Charge to Helaman
Alma 48 — If All Men Had Been Like unto Moroni — The Portrait of a Man of God in Power
Ether 2 — Serve the God of the Land — The Journey, the Barges, and the Decree Upon the Choice Land
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Jacob 3 — The Pure in Heart, the Lamanite Husbands, and the Mercy Available Yet
Mormon 1 — A Sober Child, Quick to Observe — Mormon's Boyhood, and the Withdrawal of the Spirit from a People
Mosiah 11 — King Noah and the First Cry of Abinadi — A King Whose Heart Is Set on Riches, a Prophet Who Comes Among the People to Say Repent or Be Brought Into Bondage
Mosiah 14 — The Suffering Servant — Isaiah 53 in the Mouth of Abinadi, Read into the Face of King Noah
Mosiah 24 — Burdens Made Light — Amulon's Authority, the Forbidden Prayer, the Voice of the Lord in Their Affliction, the Deep Sleep upon the Lamanites, and the Valley Named Alma
Doctrine and Covenants 13 — Upon You My Fellow Servants — The Priesthood of Aaron
Doctrine and Covenants 117 — The More Weighty Matters
Doctrine and Covenants 137 — All Who Have Died Without a Knowledge
2 Chronicles 30 — The Passover of the Gathered and the Unclean — Hezekiah's Letters to the Remnant, the Mockers and the Humbled, and the Prayer That Weighed the Heart Above the Rite
2 Kings 3 — Ditches Before the Rain — Three Kings in a Waterless Wilderness, the Minstrel Who Made Room for the Word, Water Without a Storm, and the Fire on Moab's Wall
Job 12 — No Doubt Ye Are the People — Job Answers His Friends, Points to the Beasts, and Sings the Terrible Wisdom of God
Abraham 3 — Kolob and the Council — the Governing Stars, the Noble and Great Ones, and 'Here Am I, Send Me'

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read 1 Samuel 16:1 in context.