David’s life took on more of the form of restraint. The longer he fled from demon-driven King Saul, the more warfare and fighting characterized his life. But the Lord did not let David become a brutal man. He restrained him by His Spirit’s use of various means. First Samuel 25 begins and ends with notes of loss for David. What were they, and how do you imagine they made him feel? (vv. 1, 44) What kind of people were the wealthy man and his wife whom David met at Carmel in sheep country southeast