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1 Samuel 19:13
Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.
1 Samuel 19:13 · Bible in Basic English
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1 Samuel 19:13 in other translations
And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
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.
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In context
10 And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.
11 Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.
13 Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.
14 And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.
15 And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.
16 And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head
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