Shmuel (Samuel) secretly anoints David as king in chapter
16, and then the story jumps ahead to David, now an established warrior,
playing the lyre to calm down Shaul. Chapter 17 tells of the battle
between David and Goliath which made David’s warrior reputation in the first
place, and chronologically seems to fit in the middle of chapter 16. One
explaination for the seeming discontinuity is that chapter 16 is the final
chapter of Shmuel’s prophecy before he went into retirement, and the next
author, the prophet Gad, picks up with David’s story a little bit earlier than
Shmuel had left off.
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