1 Samuel 19:12
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:12 in other translations
| BSB | So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped. |
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| WEB | So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. |
| ASV | So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. |
| YLT | And Michal causeth David to go down through the window, and he goeth on, and fleeth, and escapeth; |
| DARBY | And Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled and escaped. |
| BBE | So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away. |
| Webster | So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. |
What does 1 Samuel 19:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 19:11-12
11-12. Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him--The fear of causing a commotion in the town, or favoring his escape in the darkness, seemed to have influenced the king in ordering them to patrol till the morning. This infatuation was overruled by Providence to favor David's escape; for his wife, secretly apprised by Jonathan, who was aware of the design, or by spying persons in court…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 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…
1 Samuel 19:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 19:12
- 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. Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
- 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: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
- Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 19:11
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.
- 1 Samuel 19:12
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
- 1 Samuel 19:13
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.
1 Samuel 19:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y descolgó Michâl á David por una ventana; y él se fué, y huyó, y escapóse. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Mical fit descendre David par la fenêtre; et il s’en alla et s’enfuit, et échappa. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Michal ließ David durchs Fenster hinab; und er ging weg und floh und entrann. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | deposuit eum per fenestram. Porro ille abiit et aufugit, atque salvatus est. |