1 Samuel 16:3

16:3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out ¹  to you.”

1 Samuel 16:2

16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you ²  and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

1 Samuel 5:3

5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ³  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

[16:3]  ¹ tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”

[16:2]  ² tn Heb “in your hand.”

[5:3]  ³ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”