'As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish' — David acknowledges three possibilities for Saul's death: divine judgment ('vayyakkēhu YHWH'), natural death ('bayôm yābôʾ lāmût'), or battlefield death ('vayyiradeph bamilḥāmāh veniš'ar'). All are in the hands of God, not David. The principle of patient waiting for God's judgment emerges.

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