11. Saul sent men to watch David’s house. They stayed there all night. They were waiting to kill David in the morning, but David’s wife Michal warned him. She said, “You must run away tonight and save your life. If you don’t, you will be killed tomorrow.”
12. Then Michal let David down out of a window, and he escaped and ran away.
13. Michal took the household god, put clothes on it, and put goats’ hair on its head. Then she put the statue in the bed.
14. Saul sent messengers to take David prisoner. But Michal said, “David is sick.”
15. The men went and told Saul, but he sent the messengers back to see David. Saul told these men, “Bring David to me. Bring him lying on his bed if you must, even if it kills him.”
16. The messengers went to David’s house. They went inside to get him, but they saw it was only a statue and that its hair was only goats’ hair.
17. Saul said to Michal, “Why did you trick me like this? You let my enemy escape, and now he is gone.” Michal answered Saul, “David told me he would kill me if I didn’t help him escape.”
18. David escaped and ran away to Samuel at Ramah. He told Samuel everything that Saul had done to him. Then David and Samuel went to the camps where the prophets stayed. David stayed there.