The As King David was fleeing in fear from his enemies, he found himself going down a deceitful

path and things got more convoluted.

It's certainly not what we would expect from God's anointed king.

So what do we do when we see God's chosen king acting in an ungodly way.

Alistairbegg explores the answers today on Truth for Life. Well, I invite you to turn again to First Samuel and to Chapter 21.

It's sometime since we were first introduced to David, to the youngest of Jesse's sons.

What has happened, of course, in the ensuing period of time is that Samuel has been dispatched by God to anoint David as the future King.

And that is on account of the fact that Saul has been rejected by God as king. And Saul could not handle his

rejection and he could not handle David's rise to fame and Saul eyed him from that day on. Now it is of the utmost

importance that we do not underestimate the extent of his hatred of his hatred of David

to the extent of his hatred of David

virtually knew no bounds.

I've said I won't do this but we need to go back just

into chapter 20 for a moment where you realize that when envy, when jealousy, when

hatred ceases somebody it is volatile it can come out in all kinds of ways and in

dreadful times.

Verse 30 Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, against his son. And he said to him, you

son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

For as long as the son of Jesse, that's David, lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Do you see what he's saying? He's saying look

what you're doing to yourself. You're actually taking the sight of this fellow. You've

had no chance now ever of becoming king. Therefore, send and bring him to me. I'm going to kill him. Then

Jonathan answered Saul his father. Why should he be but to death? What is he done? And here you go. But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him.

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