1 SAMUEL 24:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.”
And afterward David's heart struck him, for he had cut off the skirt of his master's robe — David's *va'yaka et lev David oto acharei ken*, his heart struck him afterward, shows immediate conscience, moral recoil. The verb *nakah*, struck, suggests physical pain, as if David's own heart rejects what his hand has done. The very cutting of a thread of the king's robe becomes a transgression, a violation of the *anointed*, the one sanctified by God's choice.
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