We saw David’s deceit in Nob, the city of the priests. The city was holy; David was anything but. He lied each time he opened his mouth. David gets worse before he gets better. He escapes to Gath, the hometown of Goliath. He tries to forge a friendship based on a mutual adversary. If your enemy is Saul and my enemy is Saul, we become friends, right? In this case, wrong. The Gittites aren’t hospitable. “Isn’t this David, the king of the land?” they ask. “Isn’t he the one the people honor with dances,
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