my favorite saul/david story is the one where Saul's army was camped at the foot of the cliff, ready for battle the next day. David and his team were on the cliff. Saul was sleeping in a cave in the cliff. Dave and one of his guys sneak into the cave, steal Saul's water bottle, and cut the corner off his blanket, then hightail it back up to the top.
Next morning, Dave confronts the king and basically says "if I really wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already."
Saul cries "David, my son! Forgive me! Come home! All is forgiven!"
Davey, being a wise young man says "no thanks, I'll stay here."
Brilliant take on how obsession becomes a kind of self-infliced exile. Saul's fixation on David actually mirrors what happens when someone can't let go of lost status, kinda saw this in a corporate restructure once where a former exec spent years trying to undermine the new team instead of moving on. The gaslighting attemp with Samuel is the real tell that Saul had already crossed over.
Of course, it started to go wrong when the people came to Samuel and said they wanted a man for king instead of continuing to be ruled by the Lord.
Samuel prophesied how it would go wrong, and they said, "Yes, yes, we want a king anyway. Let us be like the other nations."
Guess what.
my favorite saul/david story is the one where Saul's army was camped at the foot of the cliff, ready for battle the next day. David and his team were on the cliff. Saul was sleeping in a cave in the cliff. Dave and one of his guys sneak into the cave, steal Saul's water bottle, and cut the corner off his blanket, then hightail it back up to the top.
Next morning, Dave confronts the king and basically says "if I really wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already."
Saul cries "David, my son! Forgive me! Come home! All is forgiven!"
Davey, being a wise young man says "no thanks, I'll stay here."
That was one of Saul’s sane moments.
Brilliant take on how obsession becomes a kind of self-infliced exile. Saul's fixation on David actually mirrors what happens when someone can't let go of lost status, kinda saw this in a corporate restructure once where a former exec spent years trying to undermine the new team instead of moving on. The gaslighting attemp with Samuel is the real tell that Saul had already crossed over.