Robin M. BertramSaul wanted to destroy his best warrior, David, instead of helping David destroy his real enemies. Lesson: The very person you are fighting against may be your greatest asset.
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In 1 Samuel 18:9, Saul, the king of Israel, was trying to kill David. Because he was such a great fighter himself, he thought that he could take David’s life just as easily. The story says that Saul wanted to kill David “with the sword.” But David was actually a better fighter than Saul, and so Saul realized that the only way he was going to win this fight was if he recruited his own army and took David prisoner. So Saul did just that: He called for his best warriors and set them against David. When they were all in position, he sent them over to attack him.
It worked! They caught up with him, and they killed him. But before he died, David told his men to go get Saul and bring him back. The men found Saul at a place called Keilah (which is about an hour north of Jerusalem), and when Saul saw the soldiers coming for him, he knew what it meant: He was defeated; his reign was over; and he would die soon after. When the men told Saul what had happened, however, he said: “Who did this? Who did this?” And they answered: “David did it!” And when Saul heard this news, he got up from where he had been crouching on the ground over against Keilah, fell to the ground on his face in worship of God , and said in prayer to God , “What have I done? What have I done? Why is this fate upon me? Why is my blood so unrestrainedly spilled?” Then he said again in prayer to God , “O my God, I am distressed for my death! So let your servant live! O my God , there is no one but you who can deliver your servant from the hand of these uncircumcised Philistines! O my God , make your servant know what you have commanded me saying to myself, 'Your booty will be delivered into your hand.' " Now when Saul saw that it was daybreak, he got up from the ground on which he had fallen . And it happened that when they came down from the hill they did not see him. Then it came about when they returned to run to him, behold, there were certain men with sticks coming out of the wood behind them .
And they struck the Philistines until their blood flowed all
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- Saul wanted to destroy his best warrior, David, instead of helping David destroy his real enemies. Lesson: The very person you are fighting against may be your greatest asset.