191 Saul’s Demise an indication about David’s intention to once again leave the region of Judah that becomes seriously unsafe and to move outside the land of the Lord ( cf . Bodner 2008 : 284 ) . The intention to leave God’s land as well as its reasoning goes against all assurances of David’s survival repeated in earlier texts by Jonathan ( 23 : 17 ) , Abigail ( 15 : 29 ) , the om - niscient narrator ( 23 : 14 ) , and even David’s own declaration ( 26 : 24 ) that the omnipotent God would not let David fall into Saul’s hands, or suffer from any grave dangers . These assurances seem to work up to this point . Yet David contemplates the frequency of Saul’s pursuits, and how close Saul was in the last three encounters to reaching his goal . David concludes that it is too risky to rely on his clever maneuvers and his survival luck up to now, especially when he is now responsible for his two wives, his followers and their families—all of them relying on his decisions, competence, and charism...
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