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1 Samuel 19:6-16

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6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, 1“As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death. ”
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence 2as before.
8 And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
9 3Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. 4And David was playing the lyre.
10 5And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
11 6Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed. ”
12 7So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
13 Michal took 8an image[a] and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick. ”
15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him. ”
16 And when the messengers came in, behold, 9the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
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1 Samuel 19:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 19

This chapter relates the dangers David was exposed unto through Saul's enmity at him, and his deliverance from them, as by the notice Jonathan gave him of his father's designs against him, and by his kind interposition on his behalf, 1Sa 19:1-7; by David's slipping out of Saul's presence, when he was about to cast a javelin at him, 1Sa 19:8-10; by Michal's letting him down through a window, when Saul sent messengers to kill him, and by deceiving them with an image laid in his bed in the room of him, 1Sa 19:11-17, and again by Samuel's protection of him at Naioth, whither David fled, and where Saul sent messengers after him, and at length came himself; and instead of laying hands on David, both he and the messengers were set a prophesying, 1Sa 19:18-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 9

  • 1. 19:6 See Ruth 3:13
  • 2. 19:7 ch. 16:21; 18:2, 13
  • 3. 19:9 See ch. 16:14
  • 4. 19:9 See ch. 16:16
  • 5. 19:10 ch. 18:11; 20:33
  • 6. 19:11 See Ps. 59
  • 7. 19:12 [Josh. 2:15; Acts 9:24, 25]; 2 Cor. 11:33
  • 8. 19:13 See Gen. 31:19
  • 9. 19:16 [See ver. 13 above]

Footnotes 1

  • [a] 19:13 Or 'a household god'
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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