So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 19 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Those plotting to kill watch the gates day and night, but Saul's disciples 'let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket' by night — exactly as Michal lets David down through a window so he can escape the men watching the house to kill him. The conjunction of murderous watch + nocturnal lowering-down escape is the strongest single parallel.
High confidenceMichal lets David down through a window so he escapes the king who seeks his life, a close structural parallel to Paul evading King Aretas's governor. The persecuted-servant-lowered-through-a-window motif coheres, though Paul does not cite it. Offered as an alternative/companion source to the Rahab episode; flagged low.
Low confidence