1 Samuel 19:14

And Saul sent messengers to take David; and they say that he is sick.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13And Melchol took + 19:13 Heb. teraphim, probably such images as were put on monuments. images, and laid them on the bed, and she put the + 19:13 כבר liver, has evidently been read here for כביר a quilt, or perhaps a pillow. liver of a goat by his head, and covered them with clothes.

15And he sends to David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may kill him.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 16:17And Abessalom said to Chusi, Is this your kindness to your friend? why went you not forth 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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