11. Saul sent some men to watch David's house. He told them to kill David the next morning. But David's wife Michal warned him. She said, "You must run for your life tonight. If you don't, tomorrow you will be killed."
12. So Michal helped David escape through a window. He ran and got away.
13. Then Michal got a statue of a god. She laid it on David's bed. She covered it with clothes. And she put some goat hair at the place where David's head would have been.
14. Saul sent the men to capture David. But Michal told them, "He's sick."
15. Then Saul sent the men back to see David. He told them, "Bring him up here to me in his bed. Then I'll kill him."
16. But when the men entered, they found nothing but the statue in the bed. Some goat hair was at the place where David's head would have been.
17. Saul said to Michal, "Why did you trick me like this? Why did you help my enemy escape?" Michal told him, "He said to me, 'Help me get away. If you don't, I'll kill you.' "
18. After David had run away and escaped, he went to Samuel at Ramah. He told him everything Saul had done to him. Then David and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.