1 Samuel 19:17

_AND WHEN THE MESSENGERS WERE COME IN, BEHOLD, THERE WAS AN IMAGE IN THE BED, WITH A PILLOW OF GOATS' HAIR FOR HIS BOLSTER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

11-24 Michal's stratagem to gain time till David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood had not even the plea of necessity to excuse it, and manifests that she was not influenced by the same spirit of piety which had dictated Jonathan's language to Saul. In flying to Samuel, David made God his refuge. Samuel, as a prophet, was best able to advise him what to do in this day of distress. He met with little rest or satisfaction in Saul's court, therefore went to seek it in Samuel's church. What little pleasure is to be had in this world, those have who live a life of communion with God; to that David returned in the time of trouble. So impatient was Saul after David's blood, so restless against him, that although baffled by one providence after another, he could not see that David was under the special protection of God. And when God will take this way to protect David, even Sa...

Verse 1 Samuel 19:17. _LET ME GO; WHY SHOULD I KILL THEE?_] That is, If thou do not let me go, I will kill thee. This she said to excuse herself to her father: as a _wife_ she could do not less than favour the escape of her husband, being perfectly satisfied that there was no guilt in him. It is supposed that it was on this occasion that David wrote the Psalms 59, _Deliver me frown mine_ _enemies_, c....

WHY SHOULD I KILL THEE? - To avert Saul’s anger from herself, she pretended that David had threatened her life unless she facilitated his escape....

SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1.). EXPOSITION JONATHAN'S LOVE FOR DAVID (1 Samuel 19:1). 1 SAMUEL 19:1 SAUL SPAKE TO JONATHAN HIS SON...THAT THEY SHOULD KILL DAVID. The translation of the last clause is untenable;

AND SAUL SAID UNTO MICHAL,.... After the messengers returned and reported what they had seen, when Saul either came to her at her house, or sent for her to his palace: WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME SO; for deceiving his messengers was deceiving him, by pretending David was sick and in bed, when she had placed an image there, and had let him down through a window, and he was gone: AND SENT AWAY MINE ENEMY, THAT HE IS ESCAPED? as if she was more obliged to gratify the wicked passion of a father, than to provide for the safety of her husband: AND MICHAL ANSWERED SAUL, HE SAID UNTO ME, LET ME GO, WHY SHOULD I KILL THEE? though she was concerned for the preservation of her husband, yet not for his honour and credit, nor for her own veracity; she attempted not to vindicate her husband from the charge of being an enemy to Saul, as she might; but suggested that he was so desperate a man, that if...

4. SAUL'S RENEWED ATTEMPT AND DAVID'S ESCAPE CHAPTER 19 _ 1. Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 19:1)_ 2. Saul's new attempt to kill David (1 Samuel 19:8) 3. David's escape (1 Samuel 19:11) 4. Saul's pursuit and his helplessness (1 Samuel 19:19) The lost King goes from bad to worse. First he tried to spear David; then he attempted to take his life through having him killed by the Philistines, and now he speaks openly to his own son and to all his servants that David must be killed. Therefore loving Jonathan warned David and he hid himself Then Jonathan persuades his father to desist an

1 SAMUEL 19:1 (E). Saul bids Jonathan and his followers slay David, but Jonathan brings about a reconciliation. 1 SAMUEL 19:8 (E). It is uncertain whether 1 Samuel 19:11 is the sequel of 1 Samuel 19:8, or comes from a different source. In any case the whole of 1 Samuel 19:8 probably belongs to the ancient tradition. Saul tries to kill David, but David escapes. Saul has his house watched, but Michal lets him down through the window and he escapes. She deceives Saul's messengers, by placing in the bed a dummy David, con

WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis.App-6._...

David's escape by the aid of Michal 12. _through a window_ Compare the escape of the spies from Jericho (Joshua 2:15), and St Paul from Damascus (2 Corinthians 11:33). If David's house, like Rahab's, was upon the town wall, it would be easy for him to escape thus though the door was watched by Saul's men. _fled, and escaped_ Thus began that fugitive life of hardship and peril, which was to form a new element in the education of the future king. See Introd. p. 40....