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That night David made good his escape.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_samuel/19.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Saul hurled his spear at David. But David dodged out of the way, and leaving the spear stuck in the wall, he fled and escaped into the night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_samuel/19.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_samuel/19.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_samuel/19.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_samuel/19.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_samuel/19.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_samuel/19.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul&#8217s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_samuel/19.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_samuel/19.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_samuel/19.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence, so that Saul only stuck the spear into the wall. Then David fled and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_samuel/19.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. As the spear struck the wall, David eluded Saul, ran away, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_samuel/19.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />and Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear. As the spear struck the wall, David eluded Saul, ran away, and escaped that night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_samuel/19.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_samuel/19.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_samuel/19.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Saul tried to nail David to the wall with his spear. But David dodged it, and Saul's spear struck the wall. David fled, escaping [from Saul] that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_samuel/19.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin David to the wall with his spear, but David dodged, and the spear stuck in the wall. David ran away and escaped. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_samuel/19.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he jumped away from Saul and the spear stuck in the wall. That night David escaped and fled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_samuel/19.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_samuel/19.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul's presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_samuel/19.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_samuel/19.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away from Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_samuel/19.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_samuel/19.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and Saul seeks to strike with the javelin through David, and through the wall, and he frees himself from the presence of Saul, and he strikes the javelin through the wall; and David has fled and escapes during that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_samuel/19.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and Saul seeketh to smite with the javelin through David, and through the wall, and he freeth himself from the presence of Saul, and he smiteth the javelin through the wall; and David hath fled and escapeth during that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_samuel/19.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Saul will seek to strike the spear into David and even into the wall: and he will slip away from the face of Saul, and he will strike the spear into the wall: and David fled, and he will escape in that night.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_samuel/19.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled and escaped that night. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_samuel/19.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And Saul attempted to fix David to the wall with the lance. But David turned aside from the face of Saul. And the lance failed to wound him, and it became fixed in the wall. And David fled, and so he was saved that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_samuel/19.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but David eluded Saul, and the spear struck only the wall, while David got away safely.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_samuel/19.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_samuel/19.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the javelin; but he fled from Saul's presence, and Saul stuck the javelin into the wall; and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/1_samuel/19.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Shaul sought to strike the spear into David and into the wall, and he fled from before Shaul and struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and was delivered that night<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/1_samuel/19.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall; and David fled, and escaped that night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/1_samuel/19.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Saul sought to smite David with the spear; and David withdrew <i>suddenly</i> from the presence of Saul; and he drove the spear into the wall; and David retreated and escaped.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/19-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H8oQfYUMRZg?start=5641" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_samuel/19.htm">Saul Attempts to Kill David</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp, <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7586.htm" title="7586: šā·’ūl (N-proper-ms) -- Passive participle of sha'al; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites.">Saul</a> <a href="/hebrew/1245.htm" title="1245: way·ḇaq·qêš (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To seek. A primitive root; to search out; by implication, to strive after.">tried</a> <a href="/hebrew/5221.htm" title="5221: lə·hak·kō·wṯ (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf) -- To smite. A primitive root; to strike.">to pin</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: bə·ḏā·wiḏ (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">him</a> <a href="/hebrew/7023.htm" title="7023: ū·ḇaq·qîr (Conj-w, Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A wall. Or qir; or qiyrah; from quwr; a wall.">to the wall</a> <a href="/hebrew/2595.htm" title="2595: ba·ḥă·nîṯ (Prep-b, Art:: N-fs) -- A spear. From chanah; a lance.">with his spear.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2595.htm" title="2595: ha·ḥă·nîṯ (Art:: N-fs) -- A spear. From chanah; a lance.">But the spear</a> <a href="/hebrew/5221.htm" title="5221: way·yaḵ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To smite. A primitive root; to strike.">struck</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7023.htm" title="7023: baq·qîr (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A wall. Or qir; or qiyrah; from quwr; a wall.">the wall</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: wə·ḏā·wiḏ (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">and David</a> <a href="/hebrew/6362.htm" title="6362: way·yip̄·ṭar (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To separate, remove, set free. A primitive root; to cleave or burst through, i.e. to emit, whether literal or figurative.">eluded</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: mip·pə·nê (Prep-m:: N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7586.htm" title="7586: šā·’ūl (N-proper-ms) -- Passive participle of sha'al; asked; Shaul, the name of an Edomite and two Israelites.">him,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5127.htm" title="5127: nās (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To flee, escape. A primitive root; to flit, i.e. Vanish away.">ran away,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4422.htm" title="4422: way·yim·mā·lêṭ (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to be smooth, i.e. to escape; causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparks.">and escaped</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hū (Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: bal·lay·lāh (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">night.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">1 Samuel 18:11</a></span><br />and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">1 Samuel 20:33</a></span><br />Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/23-14.htm">1 Samuel 23:14-15</a></span><br />And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand. / While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/24-2.htm">1 Samuel 24:2-3</a></span><br />So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats. / Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/25-29.htm">1 Samuel 25:29</a></span><br />And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/26-2.htm">1 Samuel 26:2</a></span><br />So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/27-1.htm">1 Samuel 27:1</a></span><br />David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/5-10.htm">2 Samuel 5:10</a></span><br />And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/22-1.htm">2 Samuel 22:1</a></span><br />And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/18-17.htm">Psalm 18:17</a></span><br />He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/59-1.htm">Psalm 59:1-4</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me. / Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed. / See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/144-10.htm">Psalm 144:10</a></span><br />to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/2-13.htm">Matthew 2:13</a></span><br />When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-14.htm">Matthew 12:14</a></span><br />But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/4-29.htm">Luke 4:29-30</a></span><br />They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff. / But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.</p><p class="hdg">sought</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/19-6.htm">1 Samuel 19:6</a></b></br> And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, <i>As</i> the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">Hosea 6:4</a></b></br> O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness <i>is</i> as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/12-43.htm">Matthew 12:43-45</a></b></br> When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none… </p><p class="hdg">he slipped</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">1 Samuel 20:33</a></b></br> And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/5-14.htm">Job 5:14,15</a></b></br> They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/18-17.htm">Psalm 18:17</a></b></br> He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.</p><p class="hdg">and escaped</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/124-7.htm">Psalm 124:7</a></b></br> Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-34.htm">Drove</a> <a href="/john/10-39.htm">Eluded</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Escaped</a> <a href="/joel/2-3.htm">Escapeth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm">Javelin</a> <a href="/1_samuel/15-16.htm">Night</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Pinning</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-7.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm">Saul</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-2.htm">Saul's</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-2.htm">Seeketh</a> <a href="/galatians/2-4.htm">Slipped</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Smite</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-8.htm">Smiteth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-8.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/1_samuel/14-4.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm">Spear</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Strike</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-8.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/romans/9-32.htm">Stuck</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-39.htm">Tried</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Wall</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_samuel/19-12.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_samuel/30-20.htm">Drove</a> <a href="/john/10-39.htm">Eluded</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-12.htm">Escaped</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-12.htm">Escapeth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">Javelin</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-11.htm">Night</a> <a href="/1_samuel/26-8.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">Pinning</a> <a href="/1_samuel/21-6.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-11.htm">Saul</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-25.htm">Saul's</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-1.htm">Seeketh</a> <a href="/2_samuel/4-6.htm">Slipped</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">Smite</a> <a href="/1_samuel/23-5.htm">Smiteth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/21-11.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-16.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">Spear</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-33.htm">Strike</a> <a href="/1_samuel/22-19.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/1_samuel/26-7.htm">Stuck</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-2.htm">Tried</a> <a href="/1_samuel/20-25.htm">Wall</a><div class="vheading2">1 Samuel 19</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-1.htm">Elkanah, a Levite, having two wives, worships yearly at Shiloh</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-4.htm">He cherishes Hannah, though barren, and provoked by Peninnah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm">Hannah in grief prays for a child</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-12.htm">Eli first rebuking her, afterwards blesses her</a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-19.htm">Hannah, having born Samuel, stays at home till he is weaned</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_samuel/19-24.htm">She presents him, according to her vow, to the Lord</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Hebrew root for "pin" (נכה, nakah) often implies a violent strike or blow, underscoring Saul's aggressive intent. Historically, Saul's repeated attempts on David's life highlight the spiritual and moral decline of a king once chosen by God. The "spear" symbolizes Saul's authority and power, which he misuses in his attempt to kill David, God's anointed. This act of aggression is a stark contrast to the divine protection surrounding David, illustrating the theme of God's sovereignty over human intentions.<p><b>but David eluded him</b><br />The word "eluded" suggests a divine intervention and protection over David. In Hebrew, the root word (מלט, malat) can mean to escape or deliver, often used in contexts where God provides a way out of danger. David's ability to evade Saul's attack is not merely a testament to his agility but also to God's providential care. This moment foreshadows David's future as a king who, despite facing numerous adversities, remains under God's protection and guidance.<p><b>and Saul drove the spear into the wall</b><br />The imagery of the "spear into the wall" serves as a powerful metaphor for Saul's futile efforts against God's plan. The wall, a symbol of stability and permanence, contrasts with Saul's unstable and destructive behavior. This act of violence against an inanimate object further illustrates Saul's irrationality and the self-destructive nature of sin. It also serves as a physical manifestation of Saul's inner turmoil and separation from God's will.<p><b>That night David fled and escaped</b><br />The phrase "fled and escaped" emphasizes David's immediate response to the threat on his life. The Hebrew word for "fled" (ברח, barach) conveys urgency and necessity, highlighting David's wisdom in recognizing the danger and acting swiftly. This escape marks a pivotal moment in David's life, as he transitions from serving in Saul's court to becoming a fugitive. It is a testament to God's faithfulness in delivering His chosen ones from peril, setting the stage for David's eventual rise to kingship. The narrative encourages believers to trust in God's timing and protection, even in the face of overwhelming adversity.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_samuel/19.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">The javelin.</span>--This is the great spear, which in so many of the scenes in the First Book of Samuel is represented as in the hand of Saul or by his side.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_samuel/19.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 10-12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Saul sought to smite David</span>. The verb used here is not that rendered <span class="accented">cast</span> in <a href="/1_samuel/18-11.htm">1 Samuel 18:11</a>, where probably we had the record of a purpose threatened, but not carried out. Here Saul actually threw his javelin at David with such violence that it was fixed into the wall. But David, though playing some instrument of music at the time, was on his guard, and slipped away. <span class="cmt_word">And David fled, and escaped that night.</span> As usual, the historian gives the ultimate results of Saul's violence first, and then returns and gives the particulars; for plainly David first went home, and it was only when he found that the house was surrounded by Saul's emissaries that he fled away to find refuge with Samuel. <span class="cmt_word">Saul also sent messengers.</span> As is often the case, this outbreak of violence on Saul's part broke down all the former restraints of upright feeling and conscience. He had lost his self-respect, was openly a murderer as regards everything but the success of his attempt, and he determined that that should not be long wanting. He sends persons, therefore, to watch David's house, with orders that when in the morning he came out, suspecting no danger, they should fall upon him and slay him. But Michal in some way or other became aware of her husband's danger. Possibly she had been at her father's house in the afternoon, and with quick observation had noticed that more than usual was going on, and seeing that her own house was the object of these preparations, had divined their intent; or possibly Jonathan may have given her information, and so she warned David of his danger. As the entrance was guarded, he was let down through a window, like St. Paul afterwards, and so began the weary life of wandering which lasted through so many troubled years. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_samuel/19-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Saul</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁא֜וּל</span> <span class="translit">(šā·’ūl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7586.htm">Strong's 7586: </a> </span><span class="str2">Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">tried</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיְבַקֵּ֨שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(way·ḇaq·qêš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1245.htm">Strong's 1245: </a> </span><span class="str2">To search out, to strive after</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to pin</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהַכּ֤וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(lə·hak·kō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5221.htm">Strong's 5221: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strike</span><br /><br /><span class="word">him</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּדָוִ֣ד</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḏā·wiḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> </span><span class="str2">David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the wall</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבַקִּ֔יר</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇaq·qîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7023.htm">Strong's 7023: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with his spear.</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּֽחֲנִית֙</span> <span class="translit">(ba·ḥă·nîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2595.htm">Strong's 2595: </a> </span><span class="str2">A lance</span><br /><br /><span class="word">But the spear</span><br /><span class="heb">הַחֲנִ֖ית</span> <span class="translit">(ha·ḥă·nîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2595.htm">Strong's 2595: </a> </span><span class="str2">A lance</span><br /><br /><span class="word">struck</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיַּ֥ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yaḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5221.htm">Strong's 5221: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strike</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the wall</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּקִּ֑יר</span> <span class="translit">(baq·qîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7023.htm">Strong's 7023: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and David</span><br /><span class="heb">וְדָוִ֛ד</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḏā·wiḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> </span><span class="str2">David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">eluded</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּפְטַר֙</span> <span class="translit">(way·yip̄·ṭar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6362.htm">Strong's 6362: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cleave, burst through, to emit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[him],</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁא֔וּל</span> <span class="translit">(šā·’ūl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7586.htm">Strong's 7586: </a> </span><span class="str2">Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ran away,</span><br /><span class="heb">נָ֥ס</span> <span class="translit">(nās)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5127.htm">Strong's 5127: </a> </span><span class="str2">To flit, vanish away</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and escaped</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּמָּלֵ֖ט</span> <span class="translit">(way·yim·mā·lêṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4422.htm">Strong's 4422: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be smooth, to escape, to release, rescue, to bring forth young, emit sparks</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">הֽוּא׃</span> <span class="translit">(hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">night.</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּלַּ֥יְלָה</span> <span class="translit">(bal·lay·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> </span><span class="str2">A twist, night, adversity</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_samuel/19-10.htm">1 Samuel 19:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_samuel/19-10.htm">OT History: 1 Samuel 19:10 Saul sought to strike David even (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_samuel/19-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 19:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 19:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_samuel/19-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 19:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 19:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>