1 Samuel 19:10-20

10 So Saul tried {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 [same] night.

11 Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, "If {you do not save your life} tonight, [then] tomorrow you [will be] killed!"

12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.

13 Then Michal took the household god and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat's hair at its head and covered [it] with the clothes.

14 And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, "He [is] ill."

15 So Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I can kill him."

16 When the messengers came, {to their surprise} the idol [was] on the bed [with] the quilt of goat's hair at the head.

17 Then Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?" Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go, why should I kill you?'"

18 So David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

19 And it was told to Saul, "David [is] in Naioth in Ramah."

20 So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing [as] chief over them, then the Spirit of God came upon Saul's messengers, and 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

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[a]. Literally "to strike with the spear on David and to the wall"
[b]. Literally "he escaped from the presence of Saul"
[c]. Literally "you are not saving your life"
[d]. Hebrew teraphim
[e]. Literally "and look"

1 Samuel 19:10-20

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1 Samuel 19:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 19

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