The Propagandistic Spin on David

Many scholars cite these condemnations of all this killing that benefit David as evidence of the writer's propagandistic spin on David. And I think personally, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense to me. The nation with this huge fissure along the border of Judah suggests that there was no true unity at all, but rather persistent conflict among warring tribes. So unity was more of a later fantasy on the part of the writers. If it ever was united, it hung by a thread for two generations, two merely two generations, before it quickly dissolved at the first opportunity.