10 headings that reveal the circumstances in which David wrote certain psalms

1. 3 A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom. (2 Samuel 15)
2. 34 Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left. (1 Samuel 21)
3. 51 For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. (2 Samuel 11)
4. 52 For the director of music. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”(1 Samuel 21, 22)
5. 54 For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?” (1 Samuel 23:19-25)
6. 56 For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. (1 Samuel 21:10-15)
7. 57 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. When he had fled from Saul into the cave. (1 Samuel 22:1)
8. 59 For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. When Saul had sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. (1 Samuel 19)
9. 60 For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A miktam of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim and Aram Zobah, and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. (2 Samuel 8)
10. 142 A maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. (1 Samuel 22:1)

(See also - 7 A shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.; 18 For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul; 63 A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.)