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1 Samuel 19:11–17, “Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster. And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?”
Saul tried to kill David twice when David was with him in his quarters. Both times he failed but he was becoming increasingly obsessed with killing David so he decided to ambush David near his home. He even told David’s wife, his daughter Michal, about his plan to kill David. In those days, a kings daughter was used in marriage for political purposes. Her job, especially if she married another king with many wives, was to look after her father’s interests and her sons’ interests rather than her husband’s interests. On the other hand, the queen would also be a hostage who could be killed if her father did anything against her husband. Saul assumed that Michal would look after his interests. Michal loved David, however, and didn’t want to see him killed so she told David to go away that very night. Michal took a statue, probably some kind of idol, and put it in David’s bed with some goats hair to look like his hair. Saul’s servants came to take David to be killed but they just found a statue in his bed. Saul was angry with Michal because she hadn’t looked after his interests and he asked her why she pretended that David was still there. Michal was afraid and told Saul that David had threatened to kill her.
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