Footnote 3 – Clothes Maketh The Man

It is consistent with the narrative as a whole that the same image be used to highlight Saul’s downfall and David’s rise to power. In “Saul and David: Crossed Fates,” BR 05:03, Jan P. Fokkelman argues that all of 1 Samuel 13 through 2 Samuel 1 is an interaction between these two processes.