Saul was told to kill the king and get rid of all the Amalekites, but he doesn't do that. The idea that your enemies have to be dispatched or at least effectively subdued was something that Saul didn't have the stomach for. So if you want to attribute that to the fact that David listened to God and that the Psalms are in fact an expression of David's soul, I don't have a problem with that. If you want to be a pragmatist about it and just look at results, soI would say that's how you judge the success of a leader, then and now.

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