¶ Again the war began, and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him.

¶ And the evil spirit of the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house having his spear in his hand, and David [a]played with his hand.

10 And Saul intended to smite David to the wall with the spear: but he turned aside out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the spear against the wall: but David fled, and escaped the same night.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:9 He played on his harp to mitigate the rage of the evil spirit, as 1 Sam. 16:23.

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