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 1 and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 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 2 to you.”
1 tn Heb “in your hand.”
2 tn Heb “say”; KJV, NRSV “name”; NIV “indicate.”