1 Samuel 19:11-17

21st Century King James Version

¹¹ Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house to watch him and to slay him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain.”

¹² So Michal let David down through a window; and he went and fled, and escaped.

¹³ And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for its head, and covered it with a cloth.

¹⁴ And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

¹⁵ And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.”

¹⁶ And when the messengers had come in, behold, there was an image in the bed with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.

¹⁷ And Saul said unto Michal, “Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said unto me, ‘Let me go: Why should I kill thee?’”