1 Samuel 19:13

And Michol took an image and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

In Context

12She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away and escaped.

14And Saul sent officers to seize David: and it was answered that he was sick.

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

Judges 18:14The five men, that before had been sent to view the land of Lais, said to the rest of their brethren: You know that in these houses there is an ephod, and theraphim, and a graven, and a molten god: see what you are pleased to do.

Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 19:12-18

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 to night, to morrow 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 his bolster, 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… Read the whole commentary →

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