1 Samuel 19:14

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth.

15And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying: 'Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.'

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:17And Absalom said to Hushai: '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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