There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
David's great victories over the Philistines in this last campaign, however, again triggered the murderous jealousy of Saul, and, in the fit of madness that came upon him, David once more, as in the days of old, was assigned the task of soothing the troubled king.