1 Samuel 19:16

When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

17Saul 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?’”

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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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