1 SAMUEL 19

Michal helped David escape

11 Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house. He told them to watch the house and to kill David while he was leaving the house the following morning. But David’s wife Michal saw them and warned him, "To survive, you must run away tonight, because if you do not do that, you will be killed tomorrow!" 12 So she enabled David to climb out through a window, and he ran away and escaped. 13 Then Michal took an idol and put it in the bed. She covered it with some of David’s clothes, and put some goat’s hair on the head of the idol.

14 When the messengers came to the house the next morning, she told them that David was sick and could not get out of bed.

15 When they reported that to Saul, he told them to go back to David’s house. He said to them, "Bring him to me lying on his bed, in order that I can kill him!" 16 But when those men entered David’s house, they saw that there was only an idol in the bed, with goat’s hair on its head.

17 When they reported that to Saul, Saul summoned Michal and said to her, "Why did you trick me like that? You allowed my enemy to escape!"

Michal replied to Saul, "David told me that if I did not help him escape, he would kill me!" [RHQ]

God’s spirit took possession of Saul

18 After David had escaped from Saul, he went to Samuel, who was at his home at Ramah. He told Samuel everything that Saul had done to try to kill him. Then David and Samuel went to Naioth, which was a section of Ramah city, and they stayed there.