1 Samuel 19:13
11 Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
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.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
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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Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
Read in contextJudges 18:17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
Read in contextJudges 18:14
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
Read in contextJudges 17:5
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Read in contextHosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
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