Come down whenever you’re ready, O king, and we will catch him and hand him over to you!”
“The LORD bless you,” Saul said.
Saul’s heart was far from God, and had been for a long time. Yet he freely invokes a divine blessing on David’s betrayers, as if their actions (as well as his own) were pleasing to the Lord, and deserving of his favor.
The wheat and the tares have always grown up together.
