Psalm 34: Taste and see the goodness of the Lord

The story told in Psalm 34 is an interesting one. David had just slain Goliath that giant of a man who provoked Israel. Saul was King of Israel and became jealous of David's popularity and planned to kill him, so David fled to Gath, which was a Philistine city. Saul followed him there. The king of Gath was Abimelech, and he was not sympathetic to David. David became afraid. He should have trusted in the Lord, but he did not. Instead he made a plan of his own by trying to make Abimelech think that he was insane. Abimelech did not kill David because in those days they thought that it was wrong to kill someone insane. Abimelech sent David away and he went to a cave in Adullam, which was a few miles away. 400 people went to the camp that David made in Adullum. They were refugees from a difficult life in Judah. This story is told in I Samuel, chapters 21 and 22. In Psalm 34 David thanked God that he was safe. Here is a musical interpretation of the passage.