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JPS Old Testament

1 Samuel 19:12

So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Falsehood;   Jealousy;   Michal;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Michal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Michal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adriel;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Laish;   Michal;   Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Michal;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Basket;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Michal ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mi'chal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Michal;   Samuel, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.
Hebrew Names Version
So Mikhal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Lexham English Bible
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.
English Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
New Century Version
So she let David down out of a window, and he ran away and escaped.
New English Translation
So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.
Amplified Bible
So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped.
New American Standard Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled, and escaped.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Michal let Dauid downe through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.
Contemporary English Version
She helped David go through a window and climb down to the ground. As David ran off,
Complete Jewish Bible
So Mikhal let David down through the window; and he left, fled and escaped.
Darby Translation
And Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled and escaped.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Michal let David down out of a window, and he escaped and ran away.
George Lamsa Translation
So Malchel let David down through a window; and he fled and escaped.
Good News Translation
She let him down from a window, and he ran away and escaped.
Literal Translation
And Michal made David go down through the window. And he went, and fled, and escaped.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Michol let him downe thorow the wyndow, so that he wente his waye, fled, and escaped.
American Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Bible in Basic English
So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Michol let Dauid downe through a windowe: and he went and fled, and was saued.
King James Version (1611)
So Michal let Dauid downe thorow a window: and hee went and fled, and escaped.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Melchol lets David down by the window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped.
English Revised Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped;
Berean Standard Bible
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sche puttide hym doun bi a wyndow. Forsothe he yede, and fledde, and was sauyd.
Young's Literal Translation
And Michal causeth David to go down through the window, and he goeth on, and fleeth, and escapeth;
Update Bible Version
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
World English Bible
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
New King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.
New Living Translation
So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.
New Life Bible
So Michal let David down through a window, and he ran away.
New Revised Standard
So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Michal let down David, through the window, and he departed and fled, and escaped.
Douay-Rheims Bible
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.
Revised Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.

Contextual Overview

11 And Saul 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.' 12 So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said: 'He is sick.' 15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying: 'Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.' 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof. 17 And Saul said unto Michal: 'Why hast thou deceived me thus, and let mine enemy go, that he is escaped?' And Michal answered Saul: 'He said unto me: Let me go; why should I kill thee?'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Michal: Psalms 34:19

let David: Joshua 2:15, Acts 9:24, Acts 9:25, 2 Corinthians 11:32, 2 Corinthians 11:33

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:21 - the hand 1 Samuel 23:26 - David made haste Psalms 4:1 - thou Psalms 59:4 - run Psalms 59:16 - morning Acts 17:10 - the brethren

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said: 'Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.' But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said: 'Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be swept away.'
Genesis 19:22
Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither.'--Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.--
Genesis 19:23
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be swept away in all their sins.'
Jeremiah 32:39
and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me for ever; for the good of them, and of their children after them;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Michal let David down through a window,.... In like manner as Rahab let down the spies from her house in Jericho, when the king's messengers were in quest of them, Joshua 2:15; and as the disciples let down the Apostle Paul at Damascus, to preserve him from the designs of the Jews upon him:

and he went, and fled, and escaped; he departed from his house, and ran with all the haste he could, and escaped the messengers that had beset the house, and were waiting for him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 19:12. Let 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.


 
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