11. Then [he] said to Jesse, Are all your sons here? [Jesse] said, There is yet the youngest; he is tending the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send for him; for we will not sit down to eat until he is here.
12. Jesse sent and brought him. David had a healthy reddish complexion and beautiful eyes, and was fine-looking. The Lord said [to Samuel], Arise, anoint him; this is he.
13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah.
14. But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and troubled him.
15. Saul's servants said to him, Behold, an evil spirit from God torments you.
16. Let our lord now command your servants here before you to find a man who plays skillfully on the lyre; and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
17. Saul told his servants, Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me.
18. One of the young men said, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who plays skillfully, a valiant man, a man of war, prudent in speech and eloquent, an attractive person; and the Lord is with him.
19. So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
20. And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid and sent them by David his son to Saul.