The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem because I have selected for myself a king from his sons.’
If your father misses me at all, say, “David urgently requested my permission to go quickly to his home town, Bethlehem, for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.”