1 Samuel 16:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

When they had come, he looked on Eliab [the eldest son] and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah’s anointed is before him.

Common English Bible

When they arrived, Samuel looked at Eliab and thought, That must be the LORD’s anointed right in front.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when they had entered, he saw Eliab, and he said, "Could he be the Christ in the sight of the Lord?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when they were come in, he saw Eliab, and said: Is the Lord's anointed before him?

1 Samuel 16:6 Cross References

1 Kings 12:26

And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David;

1 Kings 4:11

Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);

1 Chronicles 2:13

Jesse was the father of Eliab his first-born, Abinadab the second, Shime-a the third,

1 Chronicles 27:18

for Judah, Elihu, one of David's brothers; for Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet the Lord God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel for ever; for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:18

Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

Psalm 84:9

Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!

Judges 8:18

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you slew at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they, every one of them; they resembled the sons of a king.”

1 Samuel 17:13

The three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

1 Samuel 17:22

And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.