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.
Ver. 10. And Saul sought to smite David.] Whom he now raged against more than ever before: contrary to his oath. So little trust or truth is there in the envious.
Even to the wall with the javelin.] See 1 Samuel 18:11, See Trapp on " 1Sa 18:11 " Envy was Saul's master sin: as all hypocrites do customarily live in some known sin without sorrow or amendment: Judas in covetousness, Herod in voluptuousness, Diotrephes in ambition, &c.; and these devour them, as the moth in a garment, as a thief in a candle, as a worm in a tree: these put out the little good that was in them, as the sunlight putteth out the firelight.