david manages to escape saul s attacks but is forced to spend the next two years in exile. with david s absence, the war between israel and the philistines ramped back up again. we d see saul losing and losing, and finally saul mounts, you know, one more desperate battle against the philistines. and it goes so badly that saul s men are driven back. all three of his sons are killed in front of him. and he sees the philistines coming. he knows that this is it. this is the end. and so he turns to his armor bearer and he begs to be killed by one of his own. and so the armor bearer does just that and then runs back and tells david that saul has died. instead of celebrating that saul was dead because saul had been
david was a bit of a nightmare who had infiltrated the family and was taking it over. and you got to remember that saul had just been elected king. and when you have an elective king, you can people can always elect another king. and that was his fear. so what we see saul doing is acting out of paranoia, acting out of jealousy, and acting out of fear. saul becomes so jealous of david that he tries to have him put to death. he tries to kill him. david manages to escape saul s attacks. but is forced to spend the next two years in exile. with david s absence, the war between israel and the philistines ramped back up, again. we d see saul losing and losing and, finally, saul mounts, you know, one more, desperate battle against the philistines. and it goes so badly, that saul s men are driven back.
spend the next two years in exile. with david s absence, the war between israel and the philistines ramped back up again. we d see saul losing and losing, and finally saul mounts, you know, one more desperate battle against the philistines. and it goes so badly that saul s men are driven back. all three of his sons are killed in front of him. and he sees the philistines coming. he knows that this is it. this is the end. and so he turns to his armor bearer and he begs to be killed by one of his own. and so the armor bearer does just that and then runs back and tells david that saul has died. instead of celebrating that saul
put to death. he tries to kill him. david manages to escape saul s attacks but is forced to spend the next two years in exile. with david s absence, the war between israel and the philistines ramped back up again. we d see saul losing and losing, and finally saul mounts, you know, one more desperate battle against the philistines. and it goes so badly that saul s men are driven back. all three of his sons are killed in front of him. and he sees the philistines coming. he knows that this is it. this is the end. and so he turns to his armor bearer and he begs to be killed by one of his own. and so the armor bearer does just that. and then runs back and tells david that saul has died.