8. There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
9. An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
10. Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
11. Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
12. So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
13. Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
14. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
15. 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 its head.
17. 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?’”
18. Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
19. Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
20. Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.