New International Reader's Version

1 Samuel 19:10-15 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

10. Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But David got away from him just as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David escaped.

11. Saul sent some men to watch David's house. He told them to kill David the next morning. But David's wife Michal warned him. She said, "You must run for your life tonight. If you don't, tomorrow you will be killed."

12. So Michal helped David escape through a window. He ran and got away.

13. Then Michal got a statue of a god. She laid it on David's bed. She covered it with clothes. And she put some goat hair at the place where David's head would have been.

14. Saul sent the men to capture David. But Michal told them, "He's sick."

15. Then Saul sent the men back to see David. He told them, "Bring him up here to me in his bed. Then I'll kill him."