1 Samuel 23:26

“And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, etc.] Saul with his army came to the very mountain where David and his men were, the one was on one side of it, and the other on the other side; there was only one mountain between them: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; he fled on one side of the mountain, while Saul was pursuing him on the other, and hastening to get round unto him: for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them; he took methods by dividing his troops, and sending them different ways, to surround David and his men, and had very near effected it.”

“David made haste: Sa1 19:12, Sa1 20:38; Sa2 15:14, Sa2 17:21, Sa2 17:22; Psa 31:22 away: Ch2 20:12; Psa 17:9, Psa 17:11, Psa 22:12, Psa 22:16, Psa 118:11-13, Psa 140:1-9; Co2 1:8; Rev 20:9 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 23:27”

“"And David was anxiously concerned to escape from Saul, and Saul and his men were encircling David and his men to seize them; but a messenger came to Saul ... . Then Saul turned from pursuing David." The two clauses, "for Saul and his men" ( Sa1 23:26), and "there came a messenger" ( Sa1 23:27), are the circumstantial clauses by which the situation is more clearly defined: the apodosis to דּוד ויהי does not follow till ויּשׁב in Sa1 23:28. The apodosis cannot begin with וּמלאך because the verb does not stand at the head. David had thus almost inextricably fallen into the hands of Saul; but God saved him by the fact that at that very moment a messenger arrived with the intelligence, "Hasten…”