19:8 Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly 1 and they ran away from him. 19:9 Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon 2 Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre. 3 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. 4 David escaped quickly 5 that night.
1 tn Heb “and he struck them down with a great blow.”
2 tn Heb “[was] to.”
3 tn The Hebrew text adds here “with his hand.”
4 tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”
5 tn Heb “fled and escaped.”