1 Samuel 19:15
And again, Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him to me on the bed, so that he may be killed.”
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In Context
14And Saul sent attendants to seize David. And it was answered that he was sick.
16And when the messengers had arrived, they found a likeness on the bed, with a goat pelt at its head.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:6And when Saul had heard this, being pleased by the voice of Jonathan, he swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.”
Psalms 37:12My friends and my neighbors have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.
Romans 3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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 →