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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Samuel 19:17

Michal answered Saul, he said unto me, Let me go, &c.— We have an account of an action of a woman, Polyxena, the sister of the famous Dionysius, tyrant of Sicily, which is as noble and generous as this of Michal's. Her husband was accused of treason. He fled away by means of her contrivance: Dionysius, being informed of it, reproached her very severely, when she replied, "Can you imagine me so ungenerous, as to be acquainted with the danger that my husband was in, without doing myself the honour of partaking it with him?"

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See also 1 Samuel 19:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _David Driven Out a Second Time._ 1 Samuel 19:8-17 8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. 9 And...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL'S HATRED OF DAVID. DAVID ESCAPES TO SAMUEL 2. Until the morning] RV 'in the morning.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Michal pretends that David coerced her into contriving his escape....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 19 SAUL TRIES TO KILL DAVID V1 Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. Jonathan liked David very much. V2 So he warned...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶל ־מִיכַ֗ל לָ֤מָּה כָּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXVI. _ SAUL'S FURTHER EFFORTS AGAINST DAVID._ 1 Samuel 19:1. ANEW Stage of his wicked passion is now reached by Saul; he communes with his servants, and even with his son, with a view to th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SAUL CHECKED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD 1 Samuel 19:13 David hastened to apprise Samuel of the turn that events were taking, and of his grave suspicions that Saul was attempting on his life. For greater se...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Saul's enmity toward David grew, while the friendship between Jonathan and David increased. Saul did all in his power to set both Jonathan and the people against David. He even went so far as to charg...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Now that we have heard the prophet's judgment of king Saul, there follows next the choice of Jehovah. The chapter gives us in a very striking manner the manifest sentence of death on all the thoughts...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. But when Christ makes Himself known, the remnant (which Jonathan represented) loves Him as his own soul, and this beloved one becomes the object of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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; f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee? Ver. 17. _He said...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Saul sent messengers to take David_ As he did not come out of doors, where they waited for him, Saul sent other messengers to take him in the house. _She said, He is sick_ Her affection for David, an...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ionathan discloseth his fathers purpose to kill Dauid. 4 Hee perswadeth his father to reconciliation. 8 By reason of Dauids good successe in a new warre, Sauls malicious rage breaketh out against...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Saul, angry because he had been duped, SAID UNTO MICHAL, WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME SO AND SENT AWAY MINE ENEMY, the expression implying that the enemy of the father should be the enemy of the daug...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Michal Saves David's Life....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    When Saul told Jonathan and all his servants to put David to death, no sensible servant would have approved of this. Jonathan however, positively loved David and warned him of Saul's intentions. Still...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    If thou dost not permit me to escape without discovery, I shall be forced for my own defence to kill thee. Though it is most likely this was a lie and a fiction of her own....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 19:17 Saul H7586 said H559 (H8799) Michal H4324 deceived H7411 (H8765) sent H7971 enemy H341 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SAUL SEEKS TO HAVE DAVID ARRESTED WITH A VIEW TO EXECUTION (1 SAMUEL 19:11). This incident may well have occurred some time after the previous one. Saul has now determined that David must be got rid o...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Saul's murderous hate pursues David. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, David, Saul, Jonathan, Michal, Samuel. CONCLUSION: God always raises up a friend for us in time of need. Envy allowed its...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 19:11. _Saul sent messengers to slay him._ The Vulgate, _lictors,_ executioners. They could not approach the bed of a princess till the morning. 1 Samuel 19:13. _Michal took an image,_ a stat...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 19:1 Saul moves from trying to use the Philistines to kill David to actually ordering him killed. Jonathan brings about a reconciliation between Saul and David, but David fin...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 19:9. “THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM THE LORD (JEHOVAH).” “While this evil spirit is in 1 Samuel 16:15 and 1 Samuel 18:10 referred to _Elohim_, the Deity in general Jeho...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SUCCESSIVE ATTEMPTS UPON DAVID'S LIFE FRUSTRATED BY THE LOVE OF JONATHAN AND MICHAL, AND FINALLY BY FLIGHT (1 Samuel 19:1

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 21:20; 1 Samuel 19:14; 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 28:12;...

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