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16 When the messengers came in, the idol[a] was in the bed, with the covering[b] of goats’ hair on its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, ‘Why have you deceived me like this, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?’ Michal answered Saul, ‘He said to me, “Let me go; why should I kill you?”’

David Joins Samuel in Ramah

18 Now David fled and escaped; he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and settled at Naioth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:16 Heb the teraphim
  2. 1 Samuel 19:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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