1 Samuel 19:11-17 ▼

11 Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David's wife Michal told him, |If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!|

12 So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

13 Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat's hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.

14 When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, |He's sick.|

15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, |Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.|

16 When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat's hair at its head.

17 Saul said to Michal, |Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!| Michal replied to Saul, |He said to me, 'Help me get away or else I will kill you!'|