1 SAMUEL 19:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.”
So Michal let David down through a window, and he went and fled and escaped — Michal's *va'torad Michal et David ba'chalonEven* (let David down through a window) is an act of subversion, the wife using the architecture of the house to facilitate escape. The verb *va'yetzet va'yibrach*, he went and fled, marks David's transition from stationary resident to mobile fugitive. The window becomes the liminal space between the ordered world of home and the chaotic world of flight.
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