Add parallel Print Page Options

David Is Saved by Michal. Now an evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, and he was sitting in his house, holding a javelin in his hand while David was playing some music. 10 Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the javelin, but he eluded Saul, and he drove the javelin into the wall. That night David fled and escaped.

11 [a]Saul sent deputies to David’s house to watch for him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save yourself tonight, you will be killed tomorrow.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:11 The incident probably occurred during the very night of the wedding, since the passage is in logical continuity with 1 Sam 18:27.