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1 Samuel 19:10-20

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10 1And 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 2Saul 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 3So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
13 Michal took 4an image 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, 5the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.
17 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go. 6Why should I kill you?'"
18 Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at 7Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.
19 And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
20 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, 8the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, 9and they also prophesied.
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1 Samuel 19:10-20 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

Cross References 9

  • 1. 1 Samuel 18:11; 1 Samuel 20:33
  • 2. See Psalms 59
  • 3. [Joshua 2:15; Acts 9:24, 25]; 2 Corinthians 11:33
  • 4. See Genesis 31:19
  • 5. [See ver. 13 above]
  • 6. [2 Samuel 2:22]
  • 7. 1 Samuel 1:19
  • 8. [1 Samuel 10:5, 6, 10]
  • 9. [Numbers 11:25; Joel 2:28]
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