1 Samuel 19:9-17

9Yet once again an evil spirit from Adonai came upon Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, as David was playing music with his hand.

10Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s face, so that he drove the spear into the wall. That night David fled and got away.

11Then 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!”

12So Michal lowered David down through the window, and thus he went, fled and escaped.

13Then 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.

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

15So Saul sent the agents back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed so I may put him to death.”

16When the messengers came in, behold, the household idol was in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.

17Saul 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!’”