1 Samuel 19:12

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

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1 Samuel 19:12 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.

NLT

12 So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.

MSG

12 She let him out of a window, and he made his escape.

CSB

12 So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.

1 Samuel 19:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 19:12

So Michal let David down through a window
In like manner as Rahab let down the spies from her house in Jericho, when the king's messengers were in quest of them, ( Joshua 2:15 ) ; and as the disciples let down the Apostle Paul at Damascus, to preserve him from the designs of the Jews upon him:

and he went, and fled, and escaped;
he departed from his house, and ran with all the haste he could, and escaped the messengers that had beset the house, and were waiting for him.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Samuel 19:12 In-Context

10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.

11 Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.”

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

13 Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.

14 When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

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1. S Joshua 2:15; Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33

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