1 Samuel 19:16
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.”
And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
17 And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
18 So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.
- KJV
- And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
- WEB
- When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
- ASV
- And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats` [hair] at the head thereof.
- DARBY
- And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' [hair] at its head.
- BLB
- And the messengers had come in, and there was the teraphim in the bed, and a cover of goats’ [hair] for his head.
- ÅB
- Men da budene kom inn, fikk de se at det var husguden som lå i sengen med geitehårsteppet ved hodet.
- OTB
- Da budene kom inn, se, husguden var i sengen med teppet av geitehår ved hodet.
- B1930
- Men da budene kom inn, fikk de se at det var husguden som lå i sengen med gjetehårsteppet ved hodet.