1 SAMUEL 19:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
And Saul hurled the spear at him to strike him, but David evaded it and fled that night — Saul's *va'yital Shaul et ha'chanit al David*, threw the spear, repeats the pattern of attempted murder (cf. 18:11), suggesting that the *ruach ra'a* has again seized him, overriding his oath. The verb *va'ynamutz David v'yibrah*, David evaded and fled, marks a turning point: David can no longer remain in Saul's house; he must flee into the wilderness. The night flight prefigures the years of fugitive existence that will follow.
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