Christian Standard Bible
1 Samuel 19:14
14When Saul sent agents to seize David, Michal said, “He’s sick.”
1 Samuel 19:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
- New International Version (NIV)When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
- New King James Version (NKJV)So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
Context of 1 Samuel 19:14
12So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped. 13Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment. When Saul sent agents to seize David, Michal said, “He’s sick.” 15Saul sent the agents back to see David and said, “Bring him on his bed so I can kill him.” 16When the agents arrived, to their surprise, the household idol was on the bed with some goat hair on its head.
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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח שָׁא֛וּל מַלְאָכִ֖ים לָקַ֣חַת אֶת־דָּוִ֑ד וַתֹּ֖אמֶר חֹלֶ֥ה הֽוּא׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Samuel 19:14
- Joshua 2:5At nightfall, when the city gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!”
- 2 Samuel 16:17“Is this your loyalty to your friend?” Absalom asked Hushai. “Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
- 2 Samuel 17:20Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They passed by toward the water,” the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 19:14
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-24Verses 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…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-1413-14. And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed--"an image," literally, "the teraphim," and laid, not in the bed, but literally on the "divan"; and "the pillows," that is, the cushion, which usually lay at the back of the divan and was stuffed with "goat's hair," she took from its bolster or heading at the upper part of the divan. This she placed lower down, and covered with a mantle, as if to foster a proper warmth in a patient; at the same time…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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