1 Samuel 19:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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  • Josh 2:15 : 15 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.
  • Acts 9:24-25 : 24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
  • 2 Cor 11:32-33 : 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

    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.

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    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?

    18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

    19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.

  • 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

  • 29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

    2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 72%

    11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

    12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

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    20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

    21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

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    14 And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

    15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

  • 1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

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    27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

    28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

    2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

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    12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.

    13 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

    14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

    15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

  • Josh 2:15-16
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    15 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.

    16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

  • 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

  • 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

  • 22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

  • 1 Sam 24:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

    4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

  • 13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

  • 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.

  • 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

  • 17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

  • 20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  • 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

  • 44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

  • 9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

  • 24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

  • 7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

  • 3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

  • 29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.

  • 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.