1 Samuel 19:15

Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

In Context

14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

16When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 19:6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”

Psalms 37:12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

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 →

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