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With lucid insights on every page, After God’s Own Heart examines the life of David, showing how the Old Testament king relates to anointing, covenant, the temple, and sin. Ultimately, however, the author shows how David pictures the Messiah to come. This volume in the Gospel According to the Old Testament series includes questions for individual or group study.
No matter the more general significance, in 1 Samuel 16:1–3 anointing with oil is clearly used as a sign of God’s election of a particular person to serve as king over Israel. Samuel is to take his horn filled with oil to Bethlehem because God had chosen one of Jesse’s sons as king to replace the rejected Saul. This time God’s royal choice is unrelated to Israel’s desire for a king (1 Sam. 9:20) and the stark contrast is accentuated by Samuel’s initial response to Jesse’s sons. When
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