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New Century Version

1 Samuel 19:12

So she let David down out of a window, and he ran away 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 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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.
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 Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, saying, "Tonight you must run for your life. If you don't, you will be dead in the morning." 12 So she let David down out of a window, and he ran away and escaped. 13 Then Michal took an idol, laid it on the bed, covered it with clothes, and put goats' hair at its head. 14 Saul sent messengers to take David prisoner, but Michal said, "He is sick." 15 Saul sent them back to see David, saying, "Bring him to me on his bed so I can kill him." 16 When the messengers entered David's house, they found just an idol on the bed with goats' hair on its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, "Why did you trick me this way? You let my enemy go so he could run away!" Michal answered Saul, "David told me if I did not help him escape, he would kill me."

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
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was joking.
Genesis 19:17
After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."
Genesis 19:22
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)
Genesis 19:23
The sun had already come up when Lot entered Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."
Jeremiah 32:39
I will make them truly want to be one people with one goal. They will truly want to worship me all their lives, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
2 Peter 2:7
But he saved Lot from those cities. Lot, a good man, was troubled because of the filthy lives of evil people.
2 Peter 2:9
So the Lord knows how to save those who serve him when troubles come. He will hold evil people and punish them, while waiting for the Judgment Day.
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying: "Come out of that city, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive the disasters that will come to her.

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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