Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
God's word to Samuel, 'I have rejected Saul... I have provided for myself a king,' bridges the removal of Saul and the raising up of David. Reinforces the removal-then-David sequence.
Medium confidenceDavid himself was found and anointed at Bethlehem among the family of Jesse, so Bethlehem functions as the appointed site where God designates the true king over against appearances. The thematic link (humble Bethlehem origin of the LORD's chosen) is coherent, though Luke makes no verbal contact with the Samuel narrative.
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