Discovery Box1 Samuel 16:1 
ContextSamuel 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 18:27
Context18:27 when David, along with his men, went out 4 and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
1 Samuel 22:17
Context22:17 Then the king said to the messengers 5 who were stationed beside him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, for they too have sided 6 with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm 7 the priests of the Lord.
1 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
3 tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”
4 tn Heb “arose and went.”
5 tn Heb “runners.”
6 tn Heb “their hand is.”
7 tn Heb “to extend their hand to harm.”
