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David as King David's success in battle soon made him more popular than King Saul, which made the King jealous. As Saul’s jealousy of David grew he asked his son Jonathan to kill David. Jonathan was a friend of David’s, however, and hid David instead. He then went to his father and convinced Saul to promise not to kill David. He promised, and David returned to his service. But this promise did not last and, after Saul attempted to kill David a second time, he ran away. In the course of his flight, David gained the support of 600 men, and he and his band traveled from city to city. In Ein Gedi, David crept up on Saul while he was in a cave, but instead of killing him, cut a piece from his cloak and

 confronted Saul. Saul broke down and admitted that David would one day be king and

asked David to swear that he would not destroy Saul’s descendants or wipe out Saul’s

name. David swore to this, but it did not stop Saul from continuing to pursue him.

While David was out battling a tribe called the Amalekites, Saul and Jonathan were killed

on Mt. Gilboa in a fight with the Philistines. David mourned their loss, but then it was

time for David to step up as King of Judah and begin a new stage in his life.

David’s first action as king was to capture what is now the City of David in Jerusalem,

fortify it and build himself a palace. Once David had established the safety of his

kingdom, he brought the Holy Ark, which had been passed from city to city, to

Jerusalem. David then began fighting wars against Israel’s neighbors on the east bank

of the Jordan. He defeated the Moabites, the Edomites, the Ammonites and the