KING SAUL had disobeyed God, and the Lord had rejected him from being
king.
The Prophet Samuel had set his heart on this first King of Israel, and
he grieved terribly that the Lord had reject him. So he went down to
his house and mourned over all that had happened.
But at length the Lord spoke to Samuel and He said words like these:
"How long will you mourn for Saul? Take your horn of oil and go to
Bethlehem, for I have provided me a king among the sons of Jesse the
Bethlehemite."
So Samuel did what the Lord commanded, and took with him a heifer for
a sacrifice to the Lord, and called Jesse and his sons to share in the
sacrifice.
Samuel did not know which of Jesse's sons was to be the king, and as
one and another passed before him, the Lord told him that He had not
chosen that one.