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1 Samuel 19:10
1 Samuel 19:10 is verse 10 of 1 Samuel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
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1 Samuel 19:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.
9 But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,
10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
11 Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
12 So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 19:6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
Matthew 12:43When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
Matthew 12:44Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.
Matthew 12:45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
Luke 11:24When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
Luke 11:25On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
Luke 11:26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”
2 Peter 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
2 Peter 2:21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
1 Samuel 20:33Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Job 5:15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
Psalms 18:17He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
Isaiah 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
Luke 4:30But Jesus passed through the crowd and went on His way.
John 10:39At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
Psalms 124:7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Matthew 10:23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.