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What happens when the person everyone expects to lead gets passed over—and the person no one took seriously gets chosen instead? In this raw and transformative Faith Through Fiction interview, Eliab of Bethlehem—Jesse's firstborn, King Saul's scribe, and David's antagonist—confesses the moment that shattered his world: when the prophet Samuel looked him in the eye and said, "The Lord has rejected him." This isn't just a story about sibling rivalry or wounded pride. It's about a man who measured his worth by titles, who urged his father to stone his stepmother Nitzevet, who dismissed David as too soft to lead—and who discovered that "pride is a craftsman that builds houses of delusion strong enough to live in." Eliab reveals why he feared David's peace more than his weakness, how prophets don't condemn but uncover our hi ...