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, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
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Gill's Exposition
And Saul sent messengers unto David's house,.... Supposing that he was gone thither; where this was is not said, very likely in Gibeah, where Saul lived:
to watch him; that he might not get out from…
Barnes' Notes
Saul’s plan was to surround the house at night, and to have David killed as soon as he came abroad unsuspectingly in the morning.
Adam Clarke
To slay him in the morning - When they might be able to distinguish between him and Michal his wife; for, had they attempted his life in the night season, there would have been some danger to Michal's…
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…
Cambridge Bible
in the morning As he left his house. Cp. Jdg 16:2. "We may guess that only the fear of alarming the town, and of rousing the people to rescue their favourite hero, prevented him from directing them to…