After doing all that he could under the circumstances to soften Saul’s antagonism toward him, David concluded: “Jehovah himself will deal him a blow; or his day will come and he will have to die, or down into battle he will go, and he will certainly be swept away.
وی بعد از آنکه تمام سعی خود را کرد تا با شاؤل آشتی کند چنین نتیجه‌گیری کرد :‏ « به حیات یَهُوَه قَسَم که یا خداوند او را خواهد زد یا اجلش رسیده ،‏ خواهد مرد یا به جنگ فرود شده ،‏ هلاک خواهد گردید .‏