Into their own nets, Heb. into his nets; either into God's nets, the relative being put without the antecedent, as is usual in such cases, where it is easily understood; or, each into his own nets, to wit, the mischiefs which he designs against me. Withal, or, together, to wit, with my followers; or, in like manner, as I have done formerly. But this word may seem to be more fitly joined to the foregoing clause, to which it is next placed in the Hebrew, and the verse may be and is by divers, both ancient and later translators, thus rendered, Let the wicked fall (or, the wicked shall fall) into their own nets together, (altogether, or alike, one as well as another, Saul himself not excepted, whom though I dare not destroy, God will judge,) whilst that I escape; am preserved from that common calamity in which mine enemies shall perish; which was verified by the event. For David was strangely kept out of harm's way when Saul and others of David's enemies were cut off by the Philistines, 1Sa 31.

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