11. Then Saul sent agents to David’s house to watch him, in order to kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him saying, “If you don’t escape for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
12. So Michal lowered David down through the window, and thus he went, fled and escaped.
13. Then Michal took a household idol, laid it in the bed, put a quilt of goats’ hair at the head and covered it with a cloth.
14. When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”
15. So Saul sent the agents back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed so I may put him to death.”
16. When the messengers came in, behold, the household idol was in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.
17. Saul then said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy get away, so that he escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go or I’ll kill you!’”
18. So David fled and escaped, went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.
19. Saul was told, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”