Psalm 14

I wonder if the corrupt evildoers whom David observed were the Philistines? Those pagan people who clung to the shores of the sea in eastern Israel. Oppressors of God's people into David's reign. I wonder if part of Goliath's taunt of Israel included the claim that there are no deities, let alone the God of Israel? Surely the Philistines had witnessed a difference in the strange Jewish customs and practices. Surely they saw a devotion in many Jews to their invisible God. A faith that had to impress at least a few of those ruthless overlords. Maybe some seeds of faith grew in those who tried to keep Israel down when under king David God lifted them up from their misery.
Stuart