1 Samuel 22:11-23
While David, the future king, is wandering and outlawed with his faithful band, Saul is hatching sinister plots against him. At the same time his jealousy leads him to murder the priests of the LORD. And what he did not carry out against Amalek, the enemy of the people, in sparing Agag and its animals, he is not afraid to do with regard to this town of Nob. Everyone and everything is put to the sword. To execute his vengeance, Saul uses a traitor, Doeg, an Edomite, terrible figure of Antichrist, who in a time to come, will rise up against the Lord and against Israel (see the title of Psalms 52).
Let us now consider on the other hand a picture which is full of grace – Abiathar being reunited with the LORD’s anointed. "Abide thou with me," David advises him. "He that seeketh my life seeketh thy life." "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you," Jesus reminds His disciples. "If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you" (John 15:18; John 15:20). Is this persecution and hatred of the world a cause for our hearts to fear? Then listen to this precious, never-failing promise, as if from His lips, "With me thou shalt be in safeguard"
(v. 23)!