1 Samuel 19:17

World English Bible (2000)

Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

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  • 2 Sam 2:22 : 22 Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"
  • 2 Sam 17:20 : 20 Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • Exod 1:17-19 : 17 But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?" 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
  • 1 Sam 19:14 : 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
  • 1 Sam 22:17 : 17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 28:12 : 12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!"

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  • 1 Sam 19:10-16
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    82%

    10Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

    11Saul 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."

    12So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.

    13Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

    14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

    15Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

    16When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

  • 1 Sam 19:18
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    18Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.

  • 1 Sam 24:9-11
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    77%

    9David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

    10Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

    11Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1David 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    76%

    13Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Sam 26:17-18
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    75%

    17Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

    18He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 1 Sam 18:20-22
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    20Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

    21Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time."

    22Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.'"

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
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    14David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

  • 1 Sam 28:9
    74%

    9The woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?"

  • 1 Sam 18:11-12
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    11and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.

    12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 28:12
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    12When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!"

  • 1 Sam 18:17-18
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    73%

    17Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."

    18David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

  • 1 Sam 24:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

    17He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

    18You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.

    19For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

  • 1 Sam 20:32
    73%

    32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

  • 1 Sam 18:24-25
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

    25Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 26:21-22
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    73%

    21Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."

    22David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    72%

    11Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 18:27-28
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    72%

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

    28Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    72%

    5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

  • 2 Sam 6:20
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    20Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

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    12Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Yahweh said, "They will deliver you up."

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    72%

    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 22:8
    72%

    8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Sam 24:7
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    7So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

  • 1 Sam 20:1
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    1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

  • 1 Sam 16:19
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    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

  • 2 Sam 1:16
    71%

    16David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

  • 1 Sam 28:21
    71%

    21The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.