The old government has been overthrown. Now David was facing crises here on multiple levels. First, it was a family crisis. In my twenty-four years of pastoral ministry, I've watched people go through many kinds of storms, and I've gone through a few of them myself. The most painful ones are family-related.
Home truly is where the heart is.
But second, it was a vocation and financial crisis. In essence David was fired from his job, humiliated in the eyes of the entire nation, ignobly evicted from his own home and stripped of all his possessions. His bank accounts and assets were seized by the government. But third, it was a physical crisis. Large segments of the Israeli army were combing the hills of Judea with instructions to kill him on sight.