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Samuel, still grieving Saul, fills a small ram horn with olive oil beside a clay jar in a humble room. Through the doorway a heifer waits with a rope halter for the journey to Bethlehem. Quiet resolve replaces grief.
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1 Samuel 16:1-3

The horn is filled

David Is Anointed · 1 Samuel 16

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1And Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”

2Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me.” And Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’”

3Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will make known to you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me the one whom I tell you.

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