When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
Saul hears David has relieved Keilah from the Philistines and makes it an occasion for murder instead of honor, an ungrateful wretch who rewarded good with evil. He blasphemes by dragging God's name into his malice, as if Providence blessed his wickedness, and conscripts all Israel to serve his spite.
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Commenting on 1 Samuel 23:7-13
Saul twisted the news of David's victory into fuel for conspiracy. He saw the fortified town as a trap that would pen David in, forgetting that David had proven himself resourceful in caves and fields. One smiling providence does not justify an unrighteous cause.
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Saul imagined himself certain of his prey, boxed within walls, the wish was father to the thought. All his bitter experience could not convince him that Providence shielded David from every snare he laid.
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