¹⁵ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the outer side of the city wall and she resided within the wall itself.

²⁵ but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall,^[a] lowering him in a basket.

³³ but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall^[a] and escaped from his hands.

¹² So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.^{(A) 13} Michal took an idol^[a] and laid it on the bed; she put a net^[b] of goats’ hair on its head and covered it with the clothes. ¹⁴ When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”^{(B) 15} Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” ¹⁶ When the messengers came in, the idol^[c] was in the bed, with the covering^[d] 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?’ ”

²⁰ So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpets, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so the people charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.^(A)