<p class="bodytext">Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel.<n id="1" /> But Samuel<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has not chosen this one, either.&#8221;

The Philistines stayed right on the heels<n id="1" /> of Saul and his sons. They<n id="2" /> struck down Saul&#8217;s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

<p class="bodytext">Then the people<n id="1" /> of Kiriath Jearim came and took the ark of the <sc>Lord;sc> they brought it to the house of Abinadab located on the hill. They consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Jesse&#8217;s three oldest sons had followed Saul to war. The names of the<n id="1" /> three sons who went to war were Eliab, his firstborn, Abinadab, the second oldest, and Shammah, the third oldest.