1 Samuel 19:11-17

Saul Tries to Kill David

¹¹ _c Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." ¹² _d So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. ¹³ Michal took _e an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. ¹⁴ And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." ¹⁵ Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." ¹⁶ And when the messengers came in, behold, _e the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head. ¹⁷ Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go. _f Why should I kill you?'"

1. Cross References
   Psalms 59:1
   Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.
   
2. Cross References
   Joshua 2:15
   Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.
   Acts 9:24 - 25
   But their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him.
   2 Corinthians 11:33
   But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 31:19
   Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Samuel 19:13
   Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 2:22
   And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?