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The Paradox of Victory and Suffering in the Hebrew Bible
God anointed all of humanity to be his image. But then there's this particular anointing that happens to the priests and the kings which is designating a class of humans or a human high priest or the king. And this culminates in well the high priest it was done for Aaron but the character who gets the most page time as an anointed one is King David. The story of David being anointed privately and then patiently waiting for God to exalt him as king through a long period of suffering and persecution by a guy who thinks he's the real anointed one - Saul.