1 Samuele 19:17

17 E Saul disse a Mical: "Perché mi hai ingannato così e hai dato campo al mio nemico di fuggire?" E Mical rispose a Saul: "E’ lui che mi ha detto: Lasciami andare; altrimenti, t’ammazzo!"

1 Samuele 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 Samuele 19:17 In-Context

15 Allora Saul inviò di nuovo i messi perché vedessero Davide, e disse loro: "Portatemelo nel letto, perch’io lo faccia morire".

16 E quando giunsero i messi, ecco che nel letto c’era l’idolo domestico con in capo un cappuccio di pel di capra.

17 E Saul disse a Mical: "Perché mi hai ingannato così e hai dato campo al mio nemico di fuggire?" E Mical rispose a Saul: "E’ lui che mi ha detto: Lasciami andare; altrimenti, t’ammazzo!"

18 Davide dunque fuggì, si pose in salvo, e venne da Samuele a Rama, e gli raccontò tutto quello che Saul gli avea fatto. Poi, egli e Samuele andarono a stare a Naioth.

19 Questo fu riferito a Saul, dicendo: "Ecco, Davide e a Naioth, presso Rama".