1 Samuel 19:12-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹² So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped. ¹³ Michal took an idol^[a] and laid it on the bed; she put a net^[b] of goats’ hair on its head, and covered it with the clothes. ¹⁴ When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, ‘He is sick.’ ¹⁵ Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, ‘Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.’ ¹⁶ When the messengers came in, the idol^[c] was in the bed, with the covering^[d] of goats’ hair on its head. ¹⁷ Saul said to Michal, ‘Why have you deceived me like this, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?’ 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; he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and settled at Naioth.