David might well think his sentence was just, though severe, for he had more than once expressed the deliberate opinion that no one could lift up h…

And David said to him, your blood [be] upon your head
The blood that he had shed, let him suffer for it; for as he h…

David was sincere in his mourning for Saul; and all with him humbled themselves under the hand of God, which was laid so heavily upon Israel by thi…