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No one voted. As the story of David’s anointing goes, elders from all the tribes of Israel gathered and, recognizing him as the one the Lord had chosen, made him king by acclaim. It wasn’t a democracy, and no one voted. They acted together. They gathered and remembered together what God had promised to David. They affirmed that God’s will would be their will and they anointed him.
