1 Samuel 19:16 - Forerunner Commentary

1 Samuel 19:16

14 So when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

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

16 And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head.

17 Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! ^aWhy should I kill you?’ ”

18 So David fled and escaped, and went to ^aSamuel at ^bRamah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

19 Now it was told Saul, saying, “Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!”

Verse Comparison: 1 Samuel 19:16

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American Standard Version
And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' `hair' at the head thereof.

Amplified® Bible
And when the messengers came in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair at its head.

Contemporary English Version
When the guards went in, all they found in the bed was the statue with the goat hair on its head.

Darby English Version
And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' [hair] at its head.

Good News Bible
They went inside and found the household idol in the bed and the goats' hair pillow at its head.

King James Version
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

New American Standard Bible
When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol {was} on the bed with the quilt of goats' {hair} at its head.

New International Version
But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats' hair.

New King James Version
And when the messengers had come in, there was the image in the bed, with a cover of goats’ hair for his head.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol reclined on the bed with the quilt of goats' hair at its head.

Revised Standard Version
And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

Young's Literal Translation
And the messengers come in, and lo, the teraphim `are' on the bed, and the mattress of goats' `hair', `for' his pillows.

New English Translation
When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

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