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1 Samuel 19:4-14

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4 Then Jonathan 1spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "2Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.
5 "For 3he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and 4the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. 5Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?"
6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul vowed, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death."
7 Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as 6formerly.
8 When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled before * him.
9 Now there was 7an evil spirit from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house 8with his spear in his hand, 9and David was playing the harp with his hand.
10 10Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
11 Then 11Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death."
12 12So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.
13 Michal took 13the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "14He is sick."
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1 Samuel 19:4-14 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 14

  • 1. 1 Samuel 20:32; Proverbs 31:8, 9
  • 2. Genesis 42:22; Proverbs 17:13; Jeremiah 18:20
  • 3. Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 17:49, 50; 1 Samuel 28:21; Psalms 119:109
  • 4. 1 Samuel 11:13; 1 Chronicles 11:14
  • 5. Deuteronomy 19:10-13; 1 Samuel 20:32; Psalms 94:21; Matthew 27:4
  • 6. 1 Samuel 16:21; 1 Samuel 18:2, 10, 13
  • 7. 1 Samuel 16:14; 1 Samuel 18:10, 11
  • 8. 1 Samuel 18:10
  • 9. 1 Samuel 16:16
  • 10. 1 Samuel 18:11; 1 Samuel 20:33; Proverbs 1:16
  • 11. Judges 16:2; Ps 59: title
  • 12. Joshua 2:15; Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33
  • 13. Genesis 31:19; Judges 18:14, 17
  • 14. Joshua 2:5

Footnotes 5

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