13 Accordingly Samuel took the horn of oil+ and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of Jehovah began to be operative upon David from that day forward.+ Later Samuel rose and went his way to Raʹmah.+
3And the war between the house of Saul and the house of David came to be long drawn out;+ and David kept getting stronger,+ and the house of Saul kept declining more and more.+