1 Samuel 19:12
Good News Translation
She let him down from a window, and he ran away and escaped.

New Revised Standard Version
So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.

Contemporary English Version
She helped David leave through a window and climb down to the ground. As David ran off,

New American Bible
Then Michal let David down through a window, and he made his escape in safety.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.

Michal

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

let David

Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

Acts 9:24,25 But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:32,33 At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me. . . .

Context
Michal Saves David
11Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die: 12She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped.13And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.…
Cross References
Acts 9:25
But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

2 Corinthians 11:33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall: and so escaped his hands.

Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house joined close to the wall.

1 Samuel 14:49
And the sons of Saul, were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua: and the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was Merob, and the name of the younger Michol.

2 Samuel 17:20
And when Absalom's servants were come into the house, they said to the woman: Where is Achimaas and Jonathan? and the woman answered them: They passed on in haste, after they had tasted a little water. But they that sought them, when they found them not, returned into Jerusalem.

1 Samuel 19:11
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