David’s Residence In Philistia

As we have seen, the Lord through David again confronted Saul with evidence such as could be seen and handled that the son of Jesse seeks not the king's life to take it. As pricked in his conscience and as filled with carnal remorse, the king confessed, "I have sinned/' But he was not truly penitent. As was pointed out, he was subdued and afraid and remorseful like the doomed in hell are subdued and afraid and remorseful. That Saul was not truly penitent, that at the core he now was harder than...