1 Samuel 19:12-14

Amplified Bible

¹²So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped. ¹³And Michal took the ^[a]household idol and laid it on the bed, put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. ¹⁴And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 19:13 Exactly what this was is not known, but the Hebrew word (teraphim) is the usual one to refer to household idols. It could have been an image bequeathed by Saul to Michal, perhaps indicative of Saul’s lapse from God, or just a spoil of war with no meaning for the Israelites. In any case, it appears to have been an image or idol about the size of a man, since Michal is able to use it as a ruse to trick Saul’s messengers (v 14).