1 Samuel 19:9-17

9Now there was 1an evil spirit from the Lord on Saul as he was sitting in his house 2with his spear in his hand, 3and David was playing the harp with his hand. 104Saul tried to 5pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he 6stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

11Then 7Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.” 128So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped. 13Michal took 9the 10household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. 14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “11He is sick.” 15Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on 12his bed, that I may put him to death.” 16When the messengers entered, behold, the 13household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head. 17So Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! 14Why should I put you to death?’”