Footnote

d Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, Book 6, Chapter 4, paragraph 2, reads: “Accordingly Saul sent away his servant that followed him. Then the prophet took a vessel of oil, and poured it upon the head of the young man, and kissed him, and said, ‘Be thou a king by the ordination of God [basileùs hypò toû Theoû kheirotonētheís] against the Philistines, and for avenging the Hebrews for what they have suffered by them.’” Antiquities, Book 6, Chapter 13, paragraph 9, reads: “Hereupon David entered into the king’s tent, but he did neither kill Saul, though he knew where he lay, by the spear that was stuck down by him, nor did he give leave to Abishai, who would have killed him, and was strongly inclined so to do. For he said it was a horrid crime to kill one that was ordained [kheirotoneîn] king by God, although he were a wicked man: for that he who gave him the dominion, would in time inflict punishment upon him; so he restrained his eagerness.” See the translation by William Whiston, M. A., Boston, Mass., of 1849, pages 188, 189, 217. Compare also 1 Samuel 10:1, 20-24; 26:5-12.