1 Samuel 19:15
But 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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In Context
14When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
16And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair on its head.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
Romans 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
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 →