And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
Here is, I. Saul's further design of mischief to David. When David had escaped the javelin, supposing he went straight to his own house, as indeed he did, Saul sent some of his guards after him to lay wait at the door of his house, and to assassinate him in the morning as soon as he stirred out, Sa1 19:11.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 19:11-17
And when Saul sent messengers to take David,.... Either the same who in the morning inquired for David, or those staying longer than Saul expected, and fearing they were negligent or corrupted, he sent others: to whom she said, he is sick; and in bed, and cannot be spoke with; this lie she told through her affection to David, and to preserve his life; and...
1Sa 19:13-14 Michal then took the teraphim, - i.e., in all probability an image of the household gods of the size of life, and, judging from what follows, in human form, - laid it in the bed, and put a piece of woven goats’ hair at his head, i.e., either round or over the head of the image, and covered it with the garment (beged...
Commenting on 1 Samuel 19:13-14