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  2. Samuel - Wikipedia

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    Samuel confronted Saul for his disobedience and told him that God made him king, and God can unmake him king. Samuel then proceeded to execute Agag. Saul never saw Samuel alive again after this. [30] Samuel then proceeded to Bethlehem and secretly anointed David as king. He would later provide sanctuary for David, when the jealous Saul first ...

  3. Saul - Wikipedia

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    After Samuel tells Saul that God has rejected him as king, David, a son of Jesse, from the tribe of Judah, enters the story: from this point on Saul's story is largely the account of his increasingly troubled relationship with David. Samuel heads to Bethlehem, ostensibly to offer sacrifice and invited Jesse and his sons. Dining together, Jesse ...

  4. House of Saul - Wikipedia

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    A Saul-David narrative covers most of the first book of Samuel and the first part of the second book of Samuel. The narrative begins with the story of the lost asses and an encounter between Saul and Samuel (1 Samuel 9:1–10:16) and ends with a list of subdued peoples and kings (2 Samuel 8:1–15). There is reason to believe that several ...

  5. 1 Samuel 18 - Wikipedia

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    1 Samuel 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the first part of the Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel , with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan , [ 2 ] but modern scholars view it as a ...

  6. 1 Samuel 16 - Wikipedia

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    Verse 21 even states that 'Saul loved him' ('Saul' was explicitly mentioned in the Greek Septuagint, instead of ambiguous subject in Masoretic Text), which later turned to a love-hate relationship between the two. [14] An important statement in verse 23: Saul was entirely in David's hands, and David took that responsibility seriously. [14]

  7. Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the monarchy of Saul, the capital is in Gibeah. After Saul's death, Ish-bosheth rules over the Kingdom of Israel from Mahanaim, and David establishes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah in Hebron. [65] After the civil war with Saul, David forges a powerful and unified Israelite monarchy and rules from c. 1000 to 961 BCE. [66]

  8. 1 Samuel 9 - Wikipedia

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    Saul's search led him to the prophet Samuel, who privately anointed Saul as king and provided three signs as confirmation to its legitimacy, [14] all of which were fulfilled in 1 Samuel 10:2–7. [16] Throughout the account, Saul appeared to be humble, but also showed lack of confidence and perhaps doubts about his calling to kingship. [14]

  9. Nahash of Ammon - Wikipedia

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    There is a tradition that when David had earlier entrusted his family to the King of Moab (cf. 1 Samuel 22:3–4) the latter slew the entire family, except for one of David's brothers who had escaped and found asylum with Nahash. [3] Jerome suggested that David's sympathy was because both he and Nahash were enemies of Saul. [4]