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

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. They ⁶  said, “Do you come in peace?”

1 Samuel 17:12

17:12 ⁷ Now David was the son of this Ephrathite named Jesse from Bethlehem ⁸  in Judah. He had eight sons, and in Saul’s days he was old and well advanced in years. ⁹ 

1 Samuel 17:58

17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.” ¹⁰ 

[16:1]  ¹ tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And the Lord said to Samuel.”

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[16:1]  ³ tn Heb “for I have seen among his sons for me a king.”

[16:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “said.”

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[16:4]  ⁶ tc 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”).

[17:12]  ⁷ tc Some mss of the LXX lack vv. 12-31.

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[17:12]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta in reading “in years,” rather than MT “among men.”

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