King James Version (KJV)
1 Samuel 19:12
“So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 19
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
Saul also 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.
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth.
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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