1 Samuel 19:12 · KJV
“So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.”
— 1 Samuel 19:12
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
And 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. {image: Heb. teraphim}
1 Samuel 19 — Context
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt 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. {image: Heb. teraphim}
14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He {is} sick.
Cross References
Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house {was} upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
Acts 9:24-25
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
2 Corinthians 11:32-33
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
Psalms 34:19
Many {are} the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.