And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. Treasury of Scripture Bring him. The eastern beds consist merely of two thick cotton quilts, one of which, folded double, serves as a mattress, the other as a covering. Such seems to have been the bed of David, which could easily have been carried, with himself in it, to the presence of Saul. 1 Samuel 19:6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As the LORD lives, he shall not be slain. Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. Psalm 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth. Proverbs 27:3,4 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both... Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Context Michal Saves David
11Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If you save not your life to night, to morrow you shall be slain. 12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13And 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. 14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. 17And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you? 18So 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 dwelled in Naioth. 19And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. 22Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. 23And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Why they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
Darby Bible Translation
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may put him to death.
King James Bible
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
Young's Literal Translation
And Saul sendeth the messengers to see David, saying, 'Bring him up in the bed unto me,' -- to put him to death.
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