1 Samuel 19:17

17 —¿Por qué me traicionaste así y dejaste escapar a mi enemigo? —le reprochó Saúl a Mical.
—Tuve que hacerlo —contestó ella—. Me amenazó con matarme si no lo ayudaba.

1 Samuel 19:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 19:17

And Saul said unto Michal
After the messengers returned and reported what they had seen, when Saul either came to her at her house, or sent for her to his palace:

why hast thou deceived me so;
for deceiving his messengers was deceiving him, by pretending David was sick and in bed, when she had placed an image there, and had let him down through a window, and he was gone:

and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?
as if she was more obliged to gratify the wicked passion of a father, than to provide for the safety of her husband:

and Michal answered Saul, he said unto me, let me go, why should I kill
thee?
though she was concerned for the preservation of her husband, yet not for his honour and credit, nor for her own veracity; she attempted not to vindicate her husband from the charge of being an enemy to Saul, as she might; but suggested that he was so desperate a man, that if she had offered to have detained him, he would have murdered her, and threatened, if she did, he would do when both were false; that he should say to her let me go, when it was she that advised him to go, and that if she refused he would kill her; which lies were framed by her to excuse herself, at the expense of her husband's reputation.

1 Samuel 19:17 In-Context

15 Pero Saúl envió a las tropas de nuevo para prender a David y les ordenó: «¡Tráiganmelo con cama y todo para que lo mate!».

16 Pero cuando llegaron para llevarse a David, descubrieron que lo que estaba en la cama era solo un ídolo con un cojín de pelo de cabra en la cabeza.

17 —¿Por qué me traicionaste así y dejaste escapar a mi enemigo? —le reprochó Saúl a Mical.
—Tuve que hacerlo —contestó ella—. Me amenazó con matarme si no lo ayudaba.

18 Así que David escapó y fue a Ramá para ver a Samuel, y le contó todo lo que Saúl le había hecho. Entonces Samuel llevó a David a vivir con él en Naiot.

19 Cuando Saúl se enteró de que David estaba en Naiot de Ramá,