1. CRIMINALS OF THE BIBLE

2. WAR CRIMES SAUL & DAVID

3. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS SaulDoeg the Edomite Ahimelech DavidKing Achish

4. I Samuel 22:16-19 1Sa 22:16 And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!" 17 Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me." But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg, "You turn and kill the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod. 19 Also Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep-with the edge of the sword.

5. SEEDS TO THE CRIME JealousyInsecurity Severe Mental Instability Paranoia Abandonment of Faith Saul

6. I Samuel 27:8-12 8 And David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt. 9 Whenever David attacked the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achish. 10 Then Achish would say, "Where have you made a raid today?" And David would say, "Against the southern area of Judah, or against the southern area of the Jerahmeelites, or against the southern area of the Kenites."

7. I Samuel 27:8-12 11 David would save neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, "Lest they should inform on us, saying, 'Thus David did.'" And thus was his behavior all the time he dwelt in the country of the Philistines. 12 So Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly abhor him; therefore he will be my servant forever."

8. SEEDS TO THE CRIME Sense of self-preservation Lying David

9. LEGAL SYSTEM IN EFFECT During the Patriarchal Age? Under Mosaic law? In the First Century? Are war crimes a sin? Were war crimes a crime …

10. PUNISHMENT Loss of kingdom and life Saul

11. PUNISHMENT No punishment shown David

12. THE CRIME NOW Began in US following the Civil War William Calley – Vietnam War Abu Ghraib Prison - Iraq

13. LESSONS FOR US Timeless horrors of war Dangers of unchecked power in hands of leaders God’s Forgiveness