1 Samuel 19:12

she lowered him down through a window. Then he fled and went away, and he was saved.

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In The King James Version

So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

In Context

11Therefore, Saul sent his guards to David’s house, so that they might watch for him, and so that he might be killed in the morning. And after Michal, his wife, had reported this to David, saying, “Unless you save yourself this night, tomorrow you will die,”

13Then Michal took a statue, and placed it on the bed. And she placed the pelt of a goat for the hair at its head. And she covered it with clothes.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:15Therefore, she sent them down from a window with a rope. For her house was joined to the wall.

Acts 9:24But their treachery became known to Saul. Now they were also watching the gates, day and night, so that they might put him to death.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 19:12-18

11 Saul 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. 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 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. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers… Read the whole commentary →

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