1 Samuel 18:11

Saul cast the javelin; for he said Probably; Saul lifted (or brandished) the spear, and said. It does not seem to be meant that he actually cast it, as he did upon the later occasion (1 Samuel 19:10). The threatening gesture was twice repeated, and David prudently withdrew on both occasions.

avoided "Withdrew," "escaped." The word is connected with the adj. void, and Norm. Fr. voider, to empty, from Lat. viduare. It is generally transitive: comp. "six of us only stayed and the rest avoidedthe room" (Bacon): but the intransitive usage is supported, e.g., by Shakespeare, Tempest, IV. 1.

"Well done, avoid, no more."