New English Translation
1 Samuel 19:14
14When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she 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 Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped. 13Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat’s hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment. When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.” 15Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.” 16When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at 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 2:5When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”
- 2 Samuel 16:17Absalom said to Hushai, “Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
- 2 Samuel 17:20When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s 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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