1 Samuel 19:12

So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

13Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.

Acts 9:24but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

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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