16:14 The mention of the Spirit of Yahweh leaving Saul forms a narrative link to the mention of the Spirit of Yahweh permanently taking control of David (1 Sam 16:13). The Spirit’s presence and empowering belongs to the true anointed one of Yahweh, which in the narrator’s eyes—although not yet in David’s own (1 Sam 24:6, 10; 26:9, 11, 16, 23; 2 Sam 1:14, 16; 19:21)—is no longer Saul, but David. Saul is not only bereft of the Spirit of Yahweh: He is also tormented by a “spirit of (i.e., causing) harm