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1 Samuel 19:12
1 Samuel 19:12 is verse 12 of 1 Samuel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
King James Version
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
World English Bible
So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
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1 Samuel 19:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
11 Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
12 So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
13 Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
14 When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Joshua 2:15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window, since the house where she lived was built into the wall of the city.
Acts 9:24but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.
Acts 9:25One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.
2 Corinthians 11:32In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
2 Corinthians 11:33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.