1Sa 16:13-15 | JFB | STEP | 13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him-- This transaction must have been strictly private.

‏ 1 Samuel 16:13-15

13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him--This transaction must have been strictly private.

14-18. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him--His own gloomy reflections, the consciousness that he had not acted up to the character of an Israelitish king, the loss of his throne, and the extinction of his royal house, made him jealous, irritable, vindictive, and subject to fits of morbid melancholy.