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1 Samuel 19:13

Michal

11 Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

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

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.

14 When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

15 But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats` [hair] at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.
DARBY
And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put the net of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the coverlet.
BLB
And Michal took the teraphim and laid [it] in the bed, and she put a cover of goats’ [hair] for his head, and covered [it] with clothing.
ÅB
Så tok Mikal husguden og la den i sengen, og hun la et teppe av geitehår ved dens hode og dekket den til med en duk;
OTB
Mikal tok husguden og la den i sengen, la et teppe av geitehår ved hodet, og dekket det med klær.
B1930
Så tok Mikal husguden og la den i sengen, og hun la et teppe av gjetehår ved dens hode og dekket den til med et klæde;

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Cross references

  • Genesis 31:19

    Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

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  • Judges 18:17

    And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.

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  • Judges 18:14

    Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”

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  • Judges 17:5

    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

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  • Hosea 3:4

    For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

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