David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the Lord's anointed.'"David does not see this man's being killed as a murder. Rather, it is a lawful execution. He has confessed to regicide, and David carries out sentence. No guilt, or particular anger. His life was forfeit, and that was that.
Except, he lied about the whole thing. The last chapter of 1 Samuel says Saul fell in battle, not by someone's hand on his own side to spare him. And the way this is phrased, I wonder if David may have known or suspected that? Might he have known that Saul would not turn to a stranger to kill him (he did to his armor bearer, though)? Or maybe the man tried to recant, but it was too late?
Either way, I would term it a "bad shoot," though I don't know if it would then be murder. My mental jury's still out on that one, assuming I'm guessing correctly that David knew or suspected.
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