Saul suffered from a case of Herodism. The long term cure was worship with David as the lead musician and repentance in the kata forms of Abraham. Saul was eased by the worship but what about the kata forms? He did not make repentance a habit. Certainly David and also Hezekiah, in study, may have learned something from this for later on in life. They will have a pill for Herodism soon at Walgreens. Some Modern tv content may be the cause of infection.

Paul the apostle, while being a child of Benjamin( therefore a child of Israel), spends much of his theology pointing out the life in faith as a child of Abraham; Abraham who was led by and through personal relationship. Christ's message concerned returning to such personal relationship to heal what may have become a heightened movement of life that centred on the written law. By Christ's teaching, the concern is that personal relationship with the heart of God had been supplanted in the hearts and minds of the people. He began His public ministry by reciting Isaiah 61. Abraham lived His life, after his encounter with God, in and through the spirit of the Lord or by the living Word. See Romans 11. The emphasis is on being a child of Abraham in the new covenant. See 2nd Corinthians 3:6. See Hebrews 12:24.