1 Samuel 19:12

So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

13Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.

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Cross References

Joshua 2:15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.

Acts 9:24but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might 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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