1 Samuel · around about 1023 BC
Michal Helps David Escape
Michal Helps David Escape is recorded in 1 Samuel and falls around about 1023 BC. Below is what happened, where it fits, and the full text.
about 1023 BChard
What happened
Michal lowers David through a window and puts an idol in his bed to fool Saul's men.
Where it fits on the timeline
Michal helps David escape after Saul’s attacks on him, before Jonathan warns him to leave (1 Samuel 19:11-17; 1 Samuel 20:1-42; 1 Samuel 18:6-16).
The passage
1 Samuel 19:11-17
Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”
Scripture references
1 Samuel 19:11-17
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