1 Samuel 19:11-17

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11 Then ^aSaul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not make an escape for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.” 12 ^aSo Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped. 13 Then Michal took ^athe ¹household idol and laid it on the bed and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. 14 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but she said, “^aHe is sick.” 15 So Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on ¹his bed, that I may put him to death.” 16 The messengers came, and behold, the ¹household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head. 17 So Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! ^aWhy should I put you to death?’”