1 Samuel 19:14

And Saul sent officers to seize David: and it was answered that he was sick.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

In Context

13And Michol took an image and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

15And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said to him: Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

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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