World English Bible
1 Samuel 19:12
“So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 19
10
Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
11
Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.
12
So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.
13
Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
14
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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