Verses 11-17
(11) ¶ Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, tomorrow thou shalt be slain. (12) So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. (13) And 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. (14) And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. (15) And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. (16) And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. (17) And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
These several narrow escapes of David are soon related, and we rest satisfied in the account, seeing he is safe. But they were very trying moments with him, as appears by his writings. The 59th Psalm (Psalms 59:0 ), we are told by the title of it, was written by David, upon this very occasion. And if the Reader would wish to enter deeper into the view of what David's feelings were upon this occasion, he will there behold, in the fervent breathings of his soul, his fears, and how the Lord strengthened him with faith. But while we look at David, let us not overlook David's Lord. Few of the holy men of old were more lively types of Jesus, in his unequalled persecutions, than David. And therefore, we should never read of the one in his seasons of trial, without having our minds directed to the other. Many of the most earnest expressions we meet with in David's Psalms, certainly had no reference to his own personal sufferings, for they could not be applied to him. And in many others, they are abundantly heightened and made interesting in their application to Jesus. See particularly Psalms 16:0 and Psalms 22:0 .
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