It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
"And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel"  (1 Samuel 16:10). David, at this time had not appeared; and thus the number of Jesse's sons, as indicated here, was eight.  However, in  1 Chronicles 2:13-15, only seven sons are named, David being listed as the seventh.  Willis reported that, "This problem has not been satisfactorily resolved";[7] but as John W. Haley explained it, "The writer in Chronicles simply, "Omitted a son who died early."[8]