So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
Parallel translations
- KJV So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
- BSB So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
- NKJV So Michal let David down through a window. And he went and fled and escaped.
- NASB So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled, and escaped.
- NLT So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.
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Cross-references · 4
- Josh 2:15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
- 2 Cor 11:32–33In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
- Acts 9:24–25but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
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