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1 Samuel 19:13 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 19 · verse 13
And 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.1 Samuel 19:13 · King James Version
1 Samuel 19:13 in context
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.
15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- bolstermᵉraʼăshâhproperly, a headpieceH4763 →
- coveredkâçâhproperly, to plumpH3680 →
- MichalMîykâlMikal, Saul's daughterH4324 →
- pillowkᵉbîyra matrassH3523 →
- goats'ʻêza she-goat , but masculine in pluralH5795 →
- imagetᵉrâphîymTeraphim a family idolH8655 →
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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