Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been. Then the Lord said to Jacob, “GO BACK to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”…If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.
–Genesis 31:2-3, 42 (NIV)–

Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice…Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I’ll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”…That night DAVID MADE GOOD HIS ESCAPE…When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
–1 Samuel 18:10-11; 19:1-3, 10, 18 (NIV)–

Dr. Susan Forward, Toxic Parents (Bantam Books, 1989), ch. 3.

Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (Banner of Truth, 1965), 2.5.

William Gouge, Building a Godly Home, vol. 1 (RHB, 2013), chs. 11-12.