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  1. Samuel Anoints David

    The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”
  2. Samuel did what the Lord said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, “Do you come in peace?”
  3. One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the Lord is with him.”
  4. Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old.
  5. but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
  6. “Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked him. David said, “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.”
  7. If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David earnestly asked my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because an annual sacrifice is being made there for his whole clan.’
  8. Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.
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19 topical index results for “bethlehem”

FATHER-IN-LAW : Hospitable to son-in-law, a man of Bethlehem-judah (Judges 19:3-9)
JACOB : Journeys to Ephrath; Benjamin is born to; Rachel dies; and is "buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem," (Genesis 35:16-19;48:7)
JONATHAN : A Levite of Bethlehem, who becomes a priest for Micah; accepts idolatry; joins the Danites (Judges 17:7-13;18:1-30)
ISRAEL » UNDER THE JUDGES » Scandal of the Bethlehemite's concubine, and the consequent war between the Benjamites and the other tribes (Judges 19;;)
JESUS, THE CHRIST » HISTORY OF » Birth of (at Bethlehem) (Luke 2:1-7)
JESUS, THE CHRIST » HISTORY OF » Angels appear to the shepherds (in the vicinity of Bethlehem) (Luke 2:8-20)
JESUS, THE CHRIST » HISTORY OF » Magi (the wise men from the east) visit (at Bethlehem) (Matthew 2:1-12)
JESUS, THE CHRIST » HISTORY OF » Circumcision of (at Bethlehem) (Luke 2:21)
JOSEPH » Husband of Mary » Belongs to the town of Bethlehem (Luke 2:4)
JOSEPH » Husband of Mary » Goes to Bethlehem to be enrolled (Luke 2:1-4)
MIRACLES » CATALOGUE OF » The appearance of the star over Bethlehem (Matthew 2:1-9)
PROPHECY » MISCELLANEOUS, FULFILLED » Rachel weeping for her children (the slaughter of the infants in Bethlehem predicted and fulfilled) (Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:17,18)
RULERS » WICKED » Herod the Great, killing the infants in Bethlehem (Matthew 2:16-18)