^{10 Ref} Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

^{11 Ref} Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.

^{12 Ref} So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

^{13 Ref} Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.

^{14 Ref} When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

^{15 Ref} Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

¹⁶ When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.

^{17 Ref} Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?