1 Samuel 19:14

When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

15But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:17“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your 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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