1 Samuel 19:10

King James Version (KJV)

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.

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

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.

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Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

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

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Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary

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, Jer 17:9.

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