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With noble sentiments and a final charge to his
son, the good kind David, "the man after God's
own heart," died at an advanced age. He was
buried in the capital, which, received from him the
name of the "City of David."
After the return from the exile, the sepulcher
of David was still pointed out between Siloam and
the "house of the mighty men." (Neh. 3:15, 16;
Acts 2:29.)
Our authorities do not enable us to say how
long David continued in the position of Saul's
minstrel and armour-bearer. His success in war against the Philistines, his popularity among the
soldiers the love of Michal, his strong friendship
with Jonathan, with whom he entered into a covenant of brotherhood, these facts are all attested by
more than one passage in both narratives.
It is not easy to trace the beginning of the distrust which Saul conceived for his favorite, who
had been promoted to the position of bodyguard.
The main reason for Saul's enmity is his jealousy of David's popularity and success in war,
which is said to have been excited by the song of
the women, who met the victorious warriors with
the words, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and
David his ten thousands," and the hints of a suspicion that David conspired with Jonathan to dethrone him. All we know of Jonathan goes to disprove this. Saul's towards his former favorite
