He keepeth the sheep; and consequently is the most unfit of all my sons for that high employment. Either therefore he did not thoroughly understand David's great wisdom and valour, or he judgeth him unfit, by reason of his mean education. And God so ordered it by his providence, that David's choice might plainly appear to be God's work, and not Samuel's or Jesse's design. We will not sit down, to wit, to the feast. Quest. How could David be admitted to this feast, being, as it seems, not sanctified with the rest of his brethren? Answ.
1. It is not strange if the prophet, by God's direction, dispensed with the ordinary rule, in a person so extraordinary, both for his piety and the dignity to which he was chosen.
2. It is not affirmed that David did sit down with them to the feast, but only that they would not do so till he came. And when he was come, and Samuel had done what he intended with him, David, for aught we know, might depart, and the rest sit down to the feast; for David was not now actually raised to any higher degree, but returned to his former employment; as we read below, 1 Samuel 16:19.