Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
"You shall anoint for me him whom I name to you"  (1 Samuel 16:3).  Many have been impressed with the skill of the author here in the concealment of David's name until the very last.