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1 Samuel 19:12

So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Falsehood;   Jealousy;   Michal;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Michal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Michal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adriel;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Laish;   Michal;   Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Michal;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Basket;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Michal ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mi'chal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Michal;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.
Hebrew Names Version
So Mikhal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Lexham English Bible
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.
English Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
New Century Version
So she let David down out of a window, and he ran away and escaped.
New English Translation
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.
Amplified Bible
So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped.
New American Standard Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled, and escaped.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Michal let Dauid downe through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.
Contemporary English Version
She helped David go through a window and climb down to the ground. As David ran off,
Complete Jewish Bible
So Mikhal let David down through the window; and he left, fled and escaped.
Darby Translation
And Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled and escaped.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Michal let David down out of a window, and he escaped and ran away.
George Lamsa Translation
So Malchel let David down through a window; and he fled and escaped.
Good News Translation
She let him down from a window, and he ran away and escaped.
Literal Translation
And Michal made David go down through the window. And he went, and fled, and escaped.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Michol let him downe thorow the wyndow, so that he wente his waye, fled, and escaped.
American Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Michol let Dauid downe through a windowe: and he went and fled, and was saued.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.
King James Version (1611)
So Michal let Dauid downe thorow a window: and hee went and fled, and escaped.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Melchol lets David down by the window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped.
English Revised Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped;
Berean Standard Bible
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sche puttide hym doun bi a wyndow. Forsothe he yede, and fledde, and was sauyd.
Young's Literal Translation
And Michal causeth David to go down through the window, and he goeth on, and fleeth, and escapeth;
Update Bible 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: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
New King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.
New Living Translation
So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.
New Life Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he ran away.
New Revised Standard
So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Michal let down David, through the window, and he departed and fled, and escaped.
Douay-Rheims Bible
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.
Revised Standard Version
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.

Contextual Overview

11 Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning. 12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away. 13 Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it. 14 And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill. 15 And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death. 16 And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head 17 And Saul said to Michal, why have you been false to me, letting my hater go and get safely away? And in answer Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go, or I will put you to death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Michal: Psalms 34:19

let David: Joshua 2:15, Acts 9:24, Acts 9:25, 2 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 11:33

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:21 - the hand 1 Samuel 23:26 - David made haste Psalms 4:1 - thou Psalms 59:4 - run Psalms 59:16 - morning Acts 17:10 - the brethren

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.
Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Genesis 19:22
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
2 Peter 2:7
And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
Revelation 18:4
And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 19:12. Let David down through a window — As Saul's messengers were sent to David's house to watch him, they would naturally guard the gate, or lie in wait in that place by which David would come out. Michal, seeing this let him down to the ground through a window probably at the back part of the house; and there being neither entrance nor issue that way, the liers in wait were easily eluded.


 
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