KJV King James Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.
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1 Samuel 19:14
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
WEB World English Bible
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
ASV American Standard Version
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, ‘He is sick.’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 19
11 Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13 And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster.
17 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?
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Joshua 2:5And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.2 Samuel 16:17-19And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?2 Samuel 17:20And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.
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