12. So Michal lowered David through a window, and he ran away to escape.
13. Then Michal took some idols, laid them in the bed, put a goat-hair blanket at its head, and covered the idols with a garment.
14. When Saul sent messengers to get David, Michal said, “He’s sick.”
15. Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David themselves. Saul told them, “Bring him here to me in his bed so that I can kill him.”
16. The messengers came, and there in the bed were the idols with the goat-hair blanket at its head.
17. Saul asked Michal, “Why did you betray me by sending my enemy away so that he could escape?”Michal answered, “He told me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”
18. David escaped and went to Samuel at Ramah. He told Samuel everything Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to the pastures and lived there.
19. When it was reported to Saul that David was in the pastures at Ramah,