Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel 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 made Shammah to pass by,.... His third son, Sa1 17:13, sometimes called Shimma, and Shimeah, Ch1 2:13. and he said, neither hath the Lord chosen this; which he knew in the same way as before.
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