OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 19:11

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Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

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Verse 11. Morning, fearing lest they might miss him in the night, (Salien) and perhaps desiring to see his execution, after he had been tried. Joseph.—The Philistines would not attack Samson at night. See Judges 16:2. Exodus 14:20. The Parthians and Mahometans will do nothing at that time; moved perhaps by some superstitious notion. Calmet.

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