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1 Samuel 19:12 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 19 · verse 12
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.1 Samuel 19:12 · King James Version
1 Samuel 19:12 in context
10And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- escapedmâlaṭproperly, to be smoothH4422 →
- MichalMîykâlMikal, Saul's daughterH4324 →
- windowchallôwna windowH2474 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
- wentyâlakto walkH3212 →
- fledbârachto boltH1272 →
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Here is, I. Saul's further design of mischief to David. When David had escaped the javelin, supposing he went straight to his own house, as indeed he did, Saul sent some of his guards after him to lay wait at the door of his house, and to assassinate him in the morning as soon as he stirred out, Sa1 19:11.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-17