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1 Samuel 16:1

Samuel Anoints David as King

16:1 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel.¹ Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem,² for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons.”³

1 Samuel 16:4

Context

16:4 Samuel did what the Lord told him.⁴ When he arrived in Bethlehem,⁵ the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They⁶ said, “Do you come in peace?”

¹tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”

²map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

³tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”

⁴tn Heb “said.”

⁵map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

⁶tc In the MT the verb is singular (“he said”), but the translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the plural (“they said”).

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