1 Samuel 19:12

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So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 2:15 : 15 Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window.(Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)
  • Acts 9:24-25 : 24 but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him. 25 But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
  • 2 Cor 11:32-33 : 32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me, 33 but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 The godly face many dangers, but the LORD saves them from each one of them.

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  • 1 Sam 19:10-11
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    10Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night.

    11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him,“If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

  • 1 Sam 19:13-19
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    81%

    13Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat’s hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.

    14When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said,“He’s sick.”

    15Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying,“Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

    16When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

    17Saul said to Michal,“Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul,“He said to me,‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’”

    18Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

    19It was reported to Saul saying,“David is at Naioth in Ramah.”

  • 2 Sam 6:16
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    16As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him.

  • 1 Chr 15:29
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    29As the ark of the LORD’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
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    1David Aligns Himself with the Philistines David thought to himself,“One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”

    2So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10So on that day David arose and fled from Saul. He went to King Achish of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
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    11and Saul threw the spear, thinking,“I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

    12So Saul feared David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.

  • 2 Sam 6:20
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    20When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. She said,“How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!”

  • 1 Sam 18:20-21
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    20Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

    21Saul said,“I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David,“Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law.”

  • 2 Sam 3:14-15
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    14David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:“Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

    15So Ish-bosheth took her from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
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    1David Goes to Adullam and Mizpah So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family learned about it, they went down there to him.

  • 1 Sam 18:27-28
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    27when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

    28When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
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    1Saul Repeatedly Attempts to Take David’s Life Then Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much.

    2So Jonathan told David,“My father Saul is trying to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find a hiding place and stay in seclusion.

  • 1 Sam 23:12-15
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    12David asked,“Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me and my men into Saul’s hand?” The LORD said,“They will deliver you over.”

    13So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

    14David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.

    15David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • Josh 2:15-16
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    15Then Rahab let them down by a rope through the window.(Her house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)

    16She told them,“Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way.”

  • 1 Sam 23:26
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    26Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.

  • 2 Cor 11:33
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    33but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    69%

    22David promised Saul this on oath. Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 24:3-4
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    69%

    3He came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave. Saul went into it to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the recesses of the cave.

    4David’s men said to him,“This is the day about which the LORD said to you,‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
    69%

    13Then David crossed to the other side and stood on the top of the hill some distance away; there was a considerable distance between them.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    68%

    8Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

  • 1 Sam 23:20
    68%

    20Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”

  • 2 Sam 17:17
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    17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city.

  • 1 Sam 22:20
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    20But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

  • 2 Sam 15:14
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    14So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,“Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”

  • 1 Sam 25:44
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    44(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    9David said to Saul,“Why do you pay attention when men say,‘David is seeking to do you harm’?

  • 2 Sam 18:24
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    24Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
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    7David restrained his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and started down the road.

  • 2 Sam 1:3
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    3David asked him,“Where are you coming from?” He replied,“I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”

  • 1 Sam 23:29
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    29(24:1) Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.

  • 2 Sam 6:23
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    23Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.