1 Samuel 19:8-15
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Chapter 19
8And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him. 9Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre. 10And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
11Saul sent messengers to David 's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David 's wife, told him, "If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
12So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
13Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats ' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
15Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
