1 Samuel 19

11 Saul sent some messengers to David’s house to keep watch and kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, "If you don’t get away tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed."

12 Michal lowered David down from a window, and he ran off, managing to escape. 13 Then she took a home idol*19:13. "Home idol": the Hebrew word used here is teraphim and they are first mentioned in Genesis 31. They were cult objects that were used to determine the "god’s" will, see Ezekiel 21:21; Zechariah 10:2. That such idols would be there in David’s house shows the degree to which "pure religion" had been corrupted over time. and laid it in the bed, put a goat hair wig on its head, and covered it with bedclothes.

14 When Saul sent the messengers to arrest David, Michal told them, "He’s sick."

15 Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, "Bring him to me in the bed so I can kill him." 16 But when the messengers went into the bedroom, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair wig on its head.

17 "Why did you trick me like this—helping my enemy get away so he could escape?" Saul asked Michal.

"He told me, ‘Get out of my way! I don’t want to have to kill you!’" Michal replied.

18 This is how David got away and escaped. He went to Samuel at Ramah and explained to him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to stay in Naioth.