1 Samuel 19:9-17

9Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre.

10Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night.

11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

12So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

13Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat’s hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.

14When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

15Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

16When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

17Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’”