Holy Scripture

1 Samuel 19:17

A church father on this verse
“Now Michal's name means "reign," because sin reigned over our nature up to that time. And at the very time he himself was born, he [the Lord in the figure of David] went out through a window. And the window indicates the return to the light again of the one who made himself known to those sitting in darkness and the s…”
Gregory of Nyssa, 4th c. — ON THE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 2.16.272-73

Source: Septuagint

Original

17And Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou thus deceived me, and suffered my enemy to depart, and he has escaped? and Michal said to Saul, He said, Let me go, and if not, I will slay thee.

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In context

15And he sends to David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may slay him.

16And the messengers come, and, behold, the images were on the bed, and the goat’s liver at his head.

— 1 Samuel 19:17 —

18So David fled, and escaped, and comes to Samuel to Ramah, and tells him all that Saul had done to him: and Samuel and David went, and dwelt in Naioth in Ramah.

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

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