Call Jesse to the sacrifice To the feast upon the sacrifice, to which they might invite their neighbours and friends. The elders trembled at his coming Because it was strange and unexpected to them, this being but an obscure town, and remote from Samuel, and therefore they justly thought there was some extraordinary reason for it. They might fear lest he came to denounce some judgment against them, or to shun Saul's displeasure, in which case it might have been dangerous for them to entertain him. Peaceably The Hebrew phrase, Comest thou in peace? was as much as to say, (in our phrase,) Is all well?
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1 Samuel 16:3-4
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?