1 Samuel 19:12-17

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.