Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul's 'he... anointed us' draws on the anointing tradition in which Samuel anoints David and 'the Spirit of YHWH came mightily upon him.' The conjunction of anointing with the gift of the Spirit (v. 22) maps onto this royal-prophetic anointing pattern. Good thematic coherence between anointing and Spirit-endowment.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Naming Jesus 'Savior... Christ (anointed) the Lord' in David's city recalls the anointing of David at Bethlehem when the Spirit rushed upon him. The christos-David-Bethlehem nexus is coherent within the chapter's Davidic frame, though no verbal echo is pressed.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Anointing with oil is the act that makes a king/Messiah (christos); Mary's anointing of Jesus figurally enacts the royal-messianic identity the crowd will acclaim in v.13. Faint and contested, since John explicitly redirects the act toward burial rather than coronation.
Low confidence