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1 Samuel 16

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1 og HE EN sagde til Samuel: "Hvor længe vil du gå og sørge over Saul? Jeg har jo dog forkastet ham, så han ikke mere skal være Konge over Israel. Fyld dit Horn med Olie og drag af Sted! Jeg sender dig til Betlehemiten Isaj, thi jeg har udset mig en Konge blandt hans Sønner."

2 Samuel svarede: "Hvorledes kan jeg det? Får Saul det at høre, dræber han mig!" Men HE EN sagde: "Tag en Kvie med og sig: Jeg kommer for at ofre HE EN et Offer!

3 Og indbyd Isaj til Ofringen; så vil jeg lade dig vide, hvad du skal gøre; du skal salve mig den, jeg siger dig!"

4 Samuel gjorde da, som HE EN sagde. Da han kom til Betlehem, gik Byens Ældste ham forfærdede i Møde og sagde: "Kommer du for det gode?"

5 Han svarede: "Ja! Jeg kommer for at ofre til HE EN. Helliger eder og kom med til Ofringen!" Og han lod Isaj og hans Sønner hellige sig og indbød dem til Ofringen:

6 Da de kom, og han så Eliab, tænkte han: "Visselig står nu HE ENs Salvede for ham!"

7 Men HE EN sagde til Samuel: "Se ikke på hans Ydre eller høje Vækst; thi jeg har vraget ham; Gud ser jo ikke, som Mennesker ser, thi Mennesker ser på det, som er for Øjnene, men HE EN ser på Hjertet."

8 Da kaldte Isaj på Abinadab og førte ham hen for Samuel; men han sagde: "Heller ikke ham har HE EN udvalgt!"

9 Isaj førte da Sjamma frem; men han sagde: "Heller ikke ham har HE EN udvalgt!"

10 Så førte Isaj de andre af sine syv Sønner frem for Samuel; men Samuel sagde til Isaj: "HE EN har ikke udvalgt nogen af dem!"

11 Samuel spurgte da Isaj: "Er det alle de unge Mænd?" Han svarede: "Endnu er den yngste tilbage; men han vogter Småkvæget!" Da sagde Samuel til Isaj: "Send Bud efter ham! thi vi sætter os ikke til Bords, før han kommer!"

12 Så sendte han Bud efter ham. Han var rødmosset, en Yngling med smukke Øjne og skøn at se til. Da sagde HE EN: "Stå op, salv ham, thi ham er det!"

13 Samuel tog da Oliehornet og salvede ham, medens hans Brødre stod rundt om: Og HE ENs Ånd kom over David fra den Dag af. Derefter brød Samuel op og gik til ama.

14 Efter at HE ENs Ånd var veget fra Saul, plagedes han af en ond Ånd fra HE EN.

15 Sauls Folk sagde da til ham: "Se, en ond Ånd fra Gud plager dig;

16 sig kun et Ord, Herre, dine Trælle står rede til at søge efter en Mand, der kan lege på Strenge; når en ond Ånd fra Gud kommer over dig, skal han røre Strengene; så får du det godt!"

17 Da sagde Saul til sine Folk: "Find mig en Mand, der er dygtig til Strengeleg, og bring ham til mig!"

18 En af Tjenerne tog til Orde og sagde: "Jeg har set En Søn af Betlehemiten Isaj, han kan lege på Strenge og er En dygtig Kriger, En øvet Krigsmand; han ved at føje sine Ord og er En smuk Mand, og HE En er med ham!"

19 Saul sendte da Bud til Isaj og lod sige: "Send mig din Søn David, som er ved Fårene!"

20 Da tog Isaj ti Brød, en Lædersæk Vin og et Gedekid og sendte sin Søn David til Saul dermed.

21 Således kom David til Saul og trådte i hans Tjeneste; Saul fik ham såre kær, og han blev hans Våbendrager.

22 Og Saul sendte Bud til Isaj og lod sige: "Lad David blive i min Tjeneste, thi jeg har fattet Godhed for ham!"

23 Når nu Ånden fra Gud kom over Saul, tog David sin Citer og rørte Strengene; så følte Saul Lindring og fik det godt, og den onde Ånd veg fra ham.

   


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Arcana Coelestia # 4594

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4594. 'That is, Bethlehem' means a new spiritual of the celestial raised up in place of it. This is clear from the meaning of 'Bethlehem' as the spiritual of the celestial within the new state, for 'Ephrath' is the spiritual of the celestial within the initial state, 4585, while her burial there means the raising up of a new state, 4593. The fact that Bethlehem was the place where Rachel gave birth to her second son, Benjamin, and died in giving birth to him, also the place where David was born and where he was anointed king, and finally the place where the Lord was born, involves an arcanum which has not yet been revealed. Nor could it have been revealed to anyone who did not know what was meant by 'Ephrath' and by 'Bethlehem', and what was represented by 'Benjamin' and also by 'David'. Least of all could it have been revealed to anyone who did not know what the spiritual of the celestial was; for this is what was meant spiritually by those places and what was represented by those personages.

[2] The reason the Lord was born there and nowhere else was that He alone has been born a spiritual-celestial man. Everyone else has been born a natural man with the ability or capacity to become, through regeneration by the Lord, either celestial or spiritual. The Lord was born a spiritual-celestial man to the end that He might make His Human Divine, doing so according to order from the lowest degree to the highest, and so would bring order to everything in the heavens and everything in the hells. For the spiritual of the celestial is an intermediate part between the natural or external man and the rational or internal man, see above in 4585, 4592, so that below it there was the natural or external, and above it the rational or internal.

[3] Until he can grasp these things no one will ever come to understand in the light of any revelation at all why the Lord was born in Bethlehem. From most ancient times 'Ephrath' meant the spiritual of the celestial, as therefore did 'Bethlehem' subsequently. This now explains why the following words occur in David,

He swore to Jehovah, he made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob, If I enter the tent of my house, if I go up onto the couch of my bed, if I give sleep to my eyes, slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for Jehovah, dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Jacob. Behold, we heard of Him in Ephrath, we found Him in the fields of the forest; we will enter His dwelling-places, and bow down at His footstool. Psalms 132:2-7.

It is quite evident that these words are used to refer to the Lord. In the original language the pronoun 'Him' in 'we have heard of Him' and in 'we have found Him' is expressed by a letter added to the end of the verb - by the letter H, taken from the name Jehovah.

[4] And in Micah,

You, Bethlehem Ephrath, it is little that you are among the thousands of Judah; from you will come forth for Me one who will be ruler in Israel; and His origins are from of old, from the days of eternity Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:6.

From these prophecies it was well known to the Jewish people that the Messiah or Christ was to be born in Bethlehem, as is clear in Matthew,

Assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people Herod inquired of them where the Christ (the Messiah) was to be born. They told him, In Bethlehem of Judea. Matthew 2:4-5.

And in John,

The Jews said, Does not the Scripture say that the Christ (the Messiah) is going to come from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the city where David was? John 7:42.

His birth did in fact take place there, see Matthew 2:1; Luke 2:4-7. For this reason also, and because He was descended from David, the Lord is called 'a shoot from the stem of Jesse', and 'the root of Jesse', Isaiah 11:1, 10. For Jesse, David's father, was a Bethlehemite, and David was born there and also anointed king there, 1 Samuel 16:1-14; 17:12, for which reason Bethlehem was called the city of David, Luke 2:4, 11; John 7:42. David in particular represents the Lord's kingship or Divine Truth, 1888.

  
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