1 Samuel 19:12-17

12 ¹So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.

13 Michal took ²the 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, "³He is sick."

15 Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death."

16 When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats' hair at its head.

17 So Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! ⁴Why should I put you to death?' "

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1 Samuel 19:12-17 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 4

1. Joshua 2:15; Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33
2. Genesis 31:19; Judges 18:14, 17
3. Joshua 2:5
4. 2 Samuel 2:22

Footnotes 3

[a]. Heb "teraphim"
[b]. Lit "the"
[c]. Heb "teraphim"

1 Samuel 19:12-17

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1 Samuel 19:12-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 19

Cross References 4

Footnotes 3