¹¹ Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, “If you do not save your life^[a] tonight, then tomorrow you will be killed!” ¹² So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped. ¹³ Then Michal took the household god^[b] and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat’s hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. ¹⁴ And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, “He is ill.” ¹⁵ So Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I can kill him.” ¹⁶ When the messengers came, to their surprise^[c] the idol was on the bed with the quilt of goat’s hair at the head. ¹⁷ Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?” Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go, why should I kill you?’”