1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.

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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

12So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 31:19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Judges 18:14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

Hosea 3:4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

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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