1 Samuel 19:10

_AND THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM THE LORD WAS UPON SAUL, AS HE SAT IN HIS HOUSE WITH HIS JAVELIN IN HIS HAND: AND DAVID PLAYED WITH HIS HAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-10 How forcible are right words! Saul was, for a time, convinced of the unreasonableness of his enmity to David; but he continued his malice against David. So incurable is the hatred of the seed of the serpent against that of the woman; so deceitful and desperately wicked is the heart of man without the grace of God, Jeremiah 17:9....

Verse 1 Samuel 19:10. _BUT HE SLIPPED AWAY_] He found he could not trust Saul; and therefore was continually on his watch. His agility of body was the means of his preservation at this time....

DAVID FLED - This was the beginning of David’s life as a fugitive and outcast, though for no “offence or fauIt” of his (Psalms 59:3, Prayer Book Version)....

SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1.). EXPOSITION JONATHAN'S LOVE FOR DAVID (1 Samuel 19:1). 1 SAMUEL 19:1 SAUL SPAKE TO JONATHAN HIS SON...THAT THEY SHOULD KILL DAVID. The translation of the last clause is untenable;

AND SAUL SOUGHT TO SMITE DAVID EVEN TO THE WALL WITH HIS JAVELIN,.... To strike it through him, and fasten him to the wall with it, as he had attempted before, 1 Samuel 18:11; BUT HE SLIPPED AWAY OUT OF SAUL'S PRESENCE: he perceived his design, and being of great agility of body, moved out of his place before him very nimbly: AND HE SMOTE THE JAVELIN INTO THE WALL; he threw it with suck force that it entered into the wall, and stuck there; so great was his resolution to destroy David, and such the rage and passion that he was in, and such his strength of body, and which, in person; in his circumstances, is strangely exerted at times: AND DAVID FLED, AND ESCAPED THAT NIGHT; it being towards night, or in the evening, very probably, when this affair happened; upon which he departed from Saul's court, and went to his own house, and s

4. SAUL'S RENEWED ATTEMPT AND DAVID'S ESCAPE CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 19:1)_ 2. Saul's new attempt to kill David (1 Samuel 19:8) 3. David's escape (1 Samuel 19:11) 4. Saul's pursuit and his helplessness (1 Samuel 19:19) The lost King goes from bad to worse. First he tried to spear David; then he attempted to take his life through having him killed by the Philistines, and now he speaks openly to his own son and to all his servants that David must be killed. Therefore loving Jonathan warned David and he hid himself Then Jonathan persuades his father to desist an

1 SAMUEL 19:1 (E). Saul bids Jonathan and his followers slay David, but Jonathan brings about a reconciliation. 1 SAMUEL 19:8 (E). It is uncertain whether 1 Samuel 19:11 is the sequel of 1 Samuel 19:8, or comes from a different source. In any case the whole of 1 Samuel 19:8 probably belongs to the ancient tradition. Saul tries to kill David, but David escapes. Saul has his house watched, but Michal lets him down through the window and he escapes. She deceives Saul's messengers, by placing in the bed a dummy David, con

SAUL SOUGHT. Note the nine attempts on David's life; three personally by Saul, and six by his messengers (nine being the number of judgment, App-10). See note on 1 Samuel 18:11, and App-23 and App-25. EVEN TO, or, even [to pin him] to....

Saul's attempt on David's life 8. _David went out_, &c. This preliminary mention of David's fresh successes implies that Saul's attack of madness was due to jealousy excited by them....