As I happened: The story of this young man appears to be wholly a fiction, formed for the purpose of ingratiating himself with David, as the next probable successor to the crown. There is no fact in the case, except for the bringing of the diadem and bracelets of Saul, as a sufficient evidence of his death, which, as he appears to been a plunderer of the slain, he seems to have stripped from the dead body of the unfortunate monarch It is remarkable, that Saul, who had forfeited his crown by his disobedience and ill-timed clemency with respect to the Amalekites, should now have the insignia of royalty stripped from his person by one of those very people. Rth 2:3, 1Sa 6:9, Luk 10:31 mount: 2Sa 1:21, 1Sa 28:4, 1Sa 31:1 Saul: 1Sa 31:2-7 Reciprocal: 2Sa 21:12 - in Gilboa 1Ch 10:1 - mount