1 Samuel 19:12

1 Samuel 19:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
• New International Version (NIV)So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.

Context of 1 Samuel 19:12

10Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night. 11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.” So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped. 13Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. 14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

1 Samuel 19:12 word by word

וַתֹּ֧רֶד מִיכַ֛ל אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֑וֹן וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיִּבְרַ֖ח וַיִּמָּלֵֽט׃Read the interlinear

• So Michalמִיכַלmîykâl · MichalH4324
• letיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732
• throughבַּ֫עַדbe‛ad · about/through/forH1157
• a windowחַלּוֹןchallôn · windowH2474
• and he wentהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
• out and fledבָּרַחbârach · to fleeH1272
• and escapedמָלַטmâlaţ · to escapeH4422

Cross-references for 1 Samuel 19:12

• Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
• Joshua 2:15Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.
• Acts 9:24but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;
• 2 Corinthians 11:32In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 19:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Let 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.Read the comment
• 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. 11-1211-12. 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 livery watching the gate, let him down…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Samuel 19:12

• David
• Falsehood
• Jealousy
• Michal

In the dictionaries

• David
• Michal
• Secret
• Watch
• Jonathan (2)
• Samuel, Books of

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