Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
"They have driven me out ... that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord."  (1 Samuel 26:19)  Every Jew felt that the presence of God pertained especially to the land of Israel, and no Hebrew wanted to die away from it, but, "It is unnecessary to infer that David believed that God was operative only in the land of Israel.  Such a view is ruled out by  1 Samuel 30:7,8."[13]  "Here David pleaded with Saul for some opportunity that would prevent his having to leave his own people and the land of Israel."[14]  The failure of Saul to provide any answer that David could trust was at once followed by David's leaving the land of Israel for that of the Philistines.  This, of course, was a far different result from that which followed the first sparing of Saul's life by David.