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Why did David still feel threatened by Saul (1) even after the latter (at the end of the previous chapter) had acknowledged David\u2019s right to the throne? It may well be that David had diagnosed Saul\u2019s malady\u2014as did some of the medieval exegetes\u2014as <\/span>marah shechorah<\/span><\/em> (literally, black bile), a euphemism for manic depressiveness, and appreciated that the depressed Saul would not necessarily honor the pledges of his manic self.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever the case, David relocated to the land of the Philistines, despite their being arch-enemies of Israel, where he and his men\u2014having increased their number from 400 to 600\u2014entered the service of King Achish of Gath as mercenaries. Operating out of Tziklag, they raided the neighboring tribes to the southwest of the Land of Israel \u201call the way to Egypt\u201d (8). David\u2019s \u201cscorched earth\u201d policy, \u201c[he] left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels\u201d (9), was a nearly verbatim reprise of Saul\u2019s decimation of the priests of Nob (22:19). It is also understandable in light of the fact that one of the tribes attacked was Amalek, regarding whom Samuel had instructed Saul (15:3) to behave in the identical fashion (see <\/span>our comments to chapter 22<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

While Achish had previously ridiculed David as \u201ccrazy\u201d (21:16), he seems to have been more than willing to prosper from David\u2019s armed forays and, as the chapter ends, Achish convinces himself that \u201c[David] truly abhors his people, Israel, and he shall be my servant forever\u201d (12). 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