Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
If the sons of Jesse were told that God would provide himself a king among them (as he had said, Sa1 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.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 16:6-13
Then Jesse called Abinadab,.... His second son, Sa1 17:13. and made him pass before Samuel: that he might take a full view of him: and he said, neither hath the Lord chosen this; which he knew by a private suggestion from him.
1Sa 16:8-10 When Jesse thereupon brought up his other sons, one after another, before Samuel, the prophet said in the case of each, “This also Jehovah hath not chosen.” As Samuel must be the subject to the verb ויּאמר in 1Sa 16:8-10, we may assume that he had communicated the object of his coming to Jesse.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 16:8-10