You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.
"The verb ’cut off’ forms something of a recurring theme, a leit-motiv, in 1 Samuel 20-24." [Note: Baldwin, p. 146. Cf. 15:28; 20:14-17; 24:4.] 