There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
"David fled, and escaped"  (1 Samuel 19:10).  "This remark somewhat anticipates the course of events, as the author, according to the custom of Hebrew historians, gives the result at once, and then proceeds to describe in detail the more exact order of events."[9]