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16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the image[a] was in the bed, with the pillow[b] of goats’ hair at its head. 17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go; why should I kill you?’”

David Joins Samuel in Ramah

18 Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Nai′oth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 19:16 Heb teraphim
  2. 1 Samuel 19:16 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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