1 Samuel 19:10-12

19:10 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. ¹  David escaped quickly ²  that night.

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ³  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!” 19:12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

1 Samuel 19:2

19:2 So Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying ⁴  to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find ⁵  a hiding place and stay in seclusion. ⁶ 

1 Samuel 17:20

17:20 So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. ⁷  After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp ⁸  as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

Psalms 32:6-7

32:6 For this reason every one of your faithful followers ⁹  should pray to you

while there is a window of opportunity. ¹⁰ 

Certainly ¹¹  when the surging water ¹²  rises,

it will not reach them. ¹³ 

32:7 You are my hiding place;

you protect me from distress.

You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance. ¹⁴  (Selah)

¹ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

² tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

³ tn Heb “your life.”

⁴ tn Heb “seeking.”

⁵ tn Heb “stay in.”

⁶ tn Heb “and hide yourself.”

⁷ tn Heb “to a guard”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “with a keeper”; NIV “with a shepherd.” Since in contemporary English “guard” sounds like someone at a military installation or a prison, the present translation uses “to someone else who would watch over it.”

⁸ tn Or “entrenchment.”

⁹ tn A “faithful follower” (חָסִיד, khasid) is one who does what is right in God’s eyes and remains faithful to God (see Pss 4:3; 12:1; 18:25; 31:23; 37:28; 86:2; 97:10).

¹⁰ tn Heb “at a time of finding.” This may mean, “while there is time to ‘find’ [the Lord]” and seek his forgiveness (cf. NIV). Some emend the text by combining מְצֹא (mÿtso’, “finding”) with the following term רַק (raq, “only, surely”) and read either ר[וֹ]מָצ (matsor, “distress”; see Ps 31:22) or ק[וֹ]מָצ (matsoq, “hardship”; see Ps 119:143). In this case, one may translate “in a time of distress/hardship” (cf. NEB, NRSV).

¹¹ tn The Hebrew term רַק (raq) occasionally has an asseverative force.

¹² sn The surging water is here a metaphor for trouble that endangers one’s life.

¹³ tn Heb “him.” The translation uses the plural “them” to agree with the plural “every one of your faithful followers” in the first line of v. 6.

¹⁴ tn Heb “[with] shouts of joy of deliverance you surround me.”