1 Samuel 19:13
Good News Translation
Then she took the household idol, laid it on the bed, put a pillow made of goats' hair at its head, and put a cover over it.

New Revised Standard Version
Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed; she put a net of goats’ hair on its head, and covered it with the clothes.

Contemporary English Version
Michal put a statue in his bed. She put goat hair on its head and dressed it in some of David's clothes.

New American Bible
Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, putting a tangle of goat’s hair at its head and covering it with a blanket.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

an image [heb] teraphim

Genesis 31:19 At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Judges 17:5 And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Judges 18:14,17 The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do. . . .

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

a pillow.

1 Samuel 13:9,15 Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings. And he offered the holocaust. . . .

) `she pulled down the canopy (or the mosquito net, (), from (), a gnat, or mosquito, whence or word canopy) wherein he did lie in his drunkenness, from the pillars.

Context
Michal Saves David
12She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. 13And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.14And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:19
At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Judges 18:14
The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod and theraphim, and a graven and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do.

Judges 18:17
But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

1 Samuel 19:16
And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon the bed, and a goat skin at his head.

1 Samuel 19:12
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