1 Samuel 19:13

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

1 Samuel 19:13

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

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KJV

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.

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WEB

World English Bible

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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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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1 Samuel 19

¹¹ Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

¹² So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

¹³ Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

¹⁴ When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

¹⁵ But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

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