12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
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Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. …
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)Here is, I. Saul’s further design of mischief to David. When David had escaped the javelin, supposing he went straight to his own house, as indeed he did, Saul sent some of his guards after him to lay wait at the door of his house, and to assassinate him in the morning as soon as he stirred out, 1 Sam. 19:11. Josephus says the design was to seize him and to hurry him before a court of justice that…
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