1 Samuël 19:17

17 Toen zeide Saul tot Michal: Waarom hebt gij mij alzo bedrogen en hebt mijn vijand laten gaan, dat hij ontkomen is? Michal nu zeide tot Saul: Hij zeide tot mij: Laat mij gaan, waarom zou ik u doden?

1 Samuël 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 Samuël 19:17 In-Context

15 Toen zond Saul boden, om David te bezien, zeggende: Breng hem op het bed tot mij op, dat men hem dode.

16 Als de boden kwamen, zo ziet, er was een beeld in het bed, en er was een geitenvel aan zijn hoofdpeluw.

17 Toen zeide Saul tot Michal: Waarom hebt gij mij alzo bedrogen en hebt mijn vijand laten gaan, dat hij ontkomen is? Michal nu zeide tot Saul: Hij zeide tot mij: Laat mij gaan, waarom zou ik u doden?

18 Alzo vluchtte David en ontkwam, en hij kwam tot Samuel te Rama, en hij gaf hem te kennen al wat Saul hem gedaan had; en hij en Samuel gingen heen, en zij bleven te Najoth.

19 En men boodschapte Saul, zeggende: Zie, David is te Najoth, bij Rama.