That she may be a snare to him. — Is it not possible that this dark plot of Saul against a life once so dear to him — a plot which in after days, when the enmity of the king was a matter of general notoriety, became of course known by David — suggested to him (David) the means by which, in the darkest hours of his life, he got rid of the brave Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba, at the siege of Rabbah? (2 Samuel 11)
In the one of the twain. — More accurately translated. in this second time, or in this second way. The LXX. again leaves out this statement, no doubt because it refers back to the omitted passage in 1 Samuel 18:17-19.