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Anointing a King with a Flask of Oil

In the Bible, only King Saul and King Jehu are associated with anointing via a flask of oil. The descriptions of the anointings of these kings contain the only uses of the Hebrew word “flask” (פַּךְ, pakh) in the Bible. Miscall draws comparisons between the reigns of Saul and Jehu, noting that both were marked by unfaithfulness and brutality, and both kings were anointed via a flask. He argues that the anointing by flask seems intentionally different from both the “horn” of God’s anointed one that parallels God’s king in Hannah’s prophetic song (1 Sam 2:10) and from the horn that was later used for the anointing of the Davidic kings (Miscall, 1 Samuel, 58–59).

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