I don’t usually riff off sermons from my church, but 1 Samuel 24 is too chock full of good detail begging for extraction.
Quick background – David is on the run from a jealous Saul, who catches up in En Gedi. Saul chooses to relieve himself in the very cave David and his men are hiding in.
1. David’s men got the prophecy wrong.
Ever played the telephone game? One person whispers a phrase to another, and they to a third, and then a fourth, and down the row until the phrase is hilariously distorted.
This appears to be what happened to the prophecy that David would dethrone Saul. David’s men said this as, unseen, they (eww) watched a vulnerable Saul relieve himself:
…so they said to him, “Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: ‘I will hand your enemy over to you so you can do…
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