1 Samuel 19:12
◄  1 Samuel 19:12  ►
New International Version (©2011)
So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Michal let David down through the window, and he escaped and fled.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Michal lowered David through a window, and he ran away to escape.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

American King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

American Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away and escaped.

Darby Bible Translation
And Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled and escaped.

English Revised Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped;

Webster's Bible Translation
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

World English Bible
So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.

Young's Literal Translation
And Michal causeth David to go down through the window, and he goeth on, and fleeth, and escapeth;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:11-24 Michal's stratagem to gain time till David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood had not even the plea of necessity to excuse it, and manifests that she was not influenced by the same spirit of piety which had dictated Jonathan's language to Saul. In flying to Samuel, David made God his refuge. Samuel, as a prophet, was best able to advise him what to do in this day of distress. He met with little rest or satisfaction in Saul's court, therefore went to seek it in Samuel's church. What little pleasure is to be had in this world, those have who live a life of communion with God; to that David returned in the time of trouble. So impatient was Saul after David's blood, so restless against him, that although baffled by one providence after another, he could not see that David was under the special protection of God. And when God will take this way to protect David, even Saul prophesies. Many have great gifts, yet no grace; they may prophesy in Christ's name, yet are disowned by him. Let us daily seek for renewing grace, which shall be in us as a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Let us cleave to truth and holiness with full purpose of heart. In every danger and trouble, let us seek protection, comfort, and direction in God's ordinances.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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Michal Saves David
11Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If you save not your life to night, to morrow you shall be slain. 12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. …

Acts 9:25 But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.
2 Corinthians 11:33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
Joshua 2:15 So she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall.
1 Samuel 14:49 Saul's sons were Jonathan, Ishvi and Malki-Shua. The name of his older daughter was Merab, and that of the younger was Michal.
2 Samuel 17:20 When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.