1 Samuel 16:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. But Samuel said, Neither has the Lord chosen this one.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath Jehovah chosen this.

Common English Bible

⁸ Next Jesse called for Abinadab, who presented himself to Samuel, but he said, “The LORD hasn’t chosen this one either.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And Jesse called Abinadab, and he brought him before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And Isai called Abinadab, and brought him before Samuel. And he said: Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

1 Samuel 16:8 Cross References

1 Kings 4:11

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

1 Chronicles 2:13

Jesse became the father of Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

1 Samuel 17:13

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

1 Samuel 7:1

And the people of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. They consecrated his son, Eleazar, to have charge of the ark of the Lord.