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King James Version (1611 Edition)

1 Samuel 19:14

And when Saul sent messengers to take Dauid, she said, He is sicke.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Falsehood;   Jealousy;   Michal;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lying;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Michal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Lie;   Michal;   Teraphim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Michal;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Ten Commandments;   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®
When Saul sent agents to seize David, Michal said, “He’s sick.”
Hebrew Names Version
When Sha'ul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
King James Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Lexham English Bible
And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, "He is ill."
English Standard Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
New Century Version
Saul sent messengers to take David prisoner, but Michal said, "He is sick."
New English Translation
When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, "He's sick."
Amplified Bible
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
New American Standard Bible
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when Saul sent messengers to take Dauid, she sayd, He is sicke.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but she said, "He is sick."
Contemporary English Version
The next morning, Saul sent guards to arrest David. But Michal told them, "David is sick."
Complete Jewish Bible
When Sha'ul sent messengers to capture David, she said, "He's ill."
Darby Translation
And Saul sent messengers to take David, and she said, He is sick.
Easy-to-Read Version
Saul sent messengers to take David prisoner. But Michal said, "David is sick."
George Lamsa Translation
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Good News Translation
When Saul's men came to get David, Michal told them that he was sick.
Literal Translation
And Saul sent messengers to take David. And she said, He is sick.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Saul sent messaugers, to fetch Dauid. But she sayde: He is sicke.
American Standard Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Bible in Basic English
And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when Saul sent messengers to fetche Dauid, she said, he is sicke.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said: 'He is sick.'
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Saul sent messengers to take David; and they say that he is sick.
English Revised Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Berean Standard Bible
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, "He is ill."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Saul sente sergeauntis, `that schulden rauysche Dauid, and it was answeride, that he was sijk.
Young's Literal Translation
And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, `He [is] sick.'
Update Bible Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.
World English Bible
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
New King James Version
So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
New Living Translation
When the troops came to arrest David, she told them he was sick and couldn't get out of bed.
New Life Bible
When Saul sent men to take David, Michal said, "He is sick."
New Revised Standard
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said - He is, sick.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick.
Revised Standard Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

Contextual Overview

11 Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal Dauids wife tolde him, saying, If thou saue not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slaine. 12 So Michal let Dauid downe thorow a window: and hee went and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal tooke an image, and laid it in the bedde, and put a pillow of goats haire for his bolster, and couered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take Dauid, she said, He is sicke. 15 And Saul sent the messengers againe to see Dauid, saying, Bring him vp to me in the bedde, that I may slay him. 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goates haire for his bolster. 17 And Saul said vnto Michal, Why hast thou deceiued me so, and sent away mine enemie, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, Hee said vnto me, Let mee goe; Why should I kill thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she said: Joshua 2:5, 2 Samuel 16:17-19, 2 Samuel 17:20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 19:17 - He said 1 Samuel 19:20 - sent messengers

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
But before they lay downe, the men of the citie, euen the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and yong, all the people from euery quarter.
Genesis 19:8
Behold now, I haue two daughters, which haue not knowen man; let mee, I pray you, bring them out vnto you, and doe ye to them, as is good in your eyes: onely vnto these men do nothing: for therefore came they vnder the shadow of my roofe.
Genesis 19:12
And the men said vnto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? sonne in law, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bring them out of this place.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get yee out of this place: for the LORD wil destroy this citie: but hee seemed as one that mocked, vnto his sonnes in law.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to passe, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, looke not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plaine: escape to the mountaine, lest thou bee consumed.
Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, escape thither: for I cannot doe any thing till thou bee come thither: therefore the name of the citie was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodome and Gomorrah, & toward all the land of the plaine, and beheld, and loe, the smoke of the countrey went vp as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
And Lot went vp out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaine, and his two daughters with him: for hee feared to dwell in Zoar, and he dwelt in a caue, he and his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
And he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his seruants and his cattell in the field.
Exodus 12:31
And hee called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise vp, and get you forth from amongst my people, both you and the children of Israel: and goe, serue the Lord, as ye haue said.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Saul sent messengers to take David,.... Either the same who in the morning inquired for David, or those staying longer than Saul expected, and fearing they were negligent or corrupted, he sent others: to whom

she said, he [is] sick; and in bed, and cannot be spoke with; this lie she told through her affection to David, and to preserve his life; and this stratagem she devised to gain time, that while she was amusing the messengers with this tale of hers, before they could discover the truth of the matter David would be out of their reach; whereas, had she denied his being at home, or signified that he had made his escape, they would have immediately pursued after him, and he would have been in danger of being taken by them.


 
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