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1 Samuel 16:7

Context
NETBible

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by 1  his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. 2  People look on the outward appearance, 3  but the Lord looks at the heart.”

XREF

1Sa 9:2; 1Sa 10:23,24; 2Sa 14:25; 1Ki 8:39; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 16:9; Job 10:4; Ps 7:9; Ps 139:2; Ps 147:10,11; Pr 15:11; Pr 16:2; Pr 31:30; Isa 55:8,9; Jer 11:20; Jer 17:10; Jer 20:12; Lu 16:15; Joh 7:24; Ac 1:24; 2Co 10:7,10; Heb 4:13; 1Pe 2:4; 1Pe 3:4; Re 2:23

NET © Notes

tn Heb “don’t look toward.”

tn Heb “for not that which the man sees.” The translation follows the LXX, which reads, “for not as man sees does God see.” The MT has suffered from homoioteleuton or homoioarcton. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 274.

tn Heb “to the eyes.”



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