According to the story the young man was telling David, Saul then asked the question that has been important since the man arrived in Ziklag but is as yet unanswered: “And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ ” (v. 8a). Who indeed? Who could have been there on Mount Gilboa but not known to Saul? Saul’s question suggests that the man was not one of the king’s servants.25 Presumably he was not a Philistine. Who then? The answer the young man claimed to have given to Saul
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