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Then there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great slaughter, so that they fled before him. Now there was (A)an evil spirit from Yahweh on Saul as he was sitting in his house (B)with his spear in his hand, (C)and David was playing the harp with his hand. 10 (D)And Saul tried to [a]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he [b]stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

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  1. 1 Samuel 19:10 Lit strike David and the wall
  2. 1 Samuel 19:10 Lit struck

Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly,[a] and they ran away from him. Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon[b] Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre.[c] 10 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.[d] David escaped quickly[e] that night.

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  1. 1 Samuel 19:8 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
  2. 1 Samuel 19:9 tn Heb “[was] to.”
  3. 1 Samuel 19:9 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
  4. 1 Samuel 19:10 tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”
  5. 1 Samuel 19:10 tn Heb “fled and escaped.”