1 Samuel 19:15

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said: 'He is sick.'

16And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 19:6And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As the LORD liveth, he shall not be put to death.'

Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth at him with his teeth.

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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