1st Samuel Chapter 19 verse 14 Holy Bible
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
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And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.
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And Saul sent messengers to take David, and she said, He is sick.
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And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
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And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
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When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
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And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, `He `is' sick.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 14-17. - When, after waiting till the usual hour for David's appearance, he came not, the watchers send and inform Saul, who now orders his open arrest. But Michal despatches a messenger to tell her father that he is sick. Upon this Saul orders bed and all to be brought, that he may slay him. As an Oriental bed is usually a mere strip of carpet, this would be easy enough. But when the messengers force their way through, in spite of every obstruction which Michal can devise to waste time, and come up close to the sleeping figure, "Lo, teraphim in the bed, and a goatskin at its head." They carry the news to Saul, who sends for Michal, and reproaches her for letting his enemy go. And she, afraid of bringing her father's anger upon herself, answers with a falsehood, such as we find David also too readily having resort to; for she tells Saul that his flight was David's own doing, and that she had taken part in it only to save her life. Why should I kill thee? She pretends that David had told her not to force him to kill her by refusing to give her aid in his escape. Saul, no doubt, saw that she had been a willing agent; but as she professed to have been driven to do what she had done by David's threats, he could say no more. DAVID'S FLIGHT TO SAMUEL AT RAMAH (vers. 18-24).
