11 Saul sent guards to watch David's house all night and then to kill him in the morning.Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you don't escape tonight, they'll kill you tomorrow!”
12 She helped David go through a window and climb down to the ground. As David ran off,
13 Michal put a statue in his bed. She put goat hair on its head and dressed it in some of David's clothes.
14 The next morning, Saul sent guards to arrest David. But Michal told them, “David is sick.”
15 Saul sent the guards back and told them, “Get David out of his bed and bring him to me, so I can have him killed.”
16 When the guards went in, all they found in the bed was the statue with the goat hair on its head.
17 “Why have you tricked me this way?” Saul asked Michal. “You helped my enemy get away!”She answered, “He said he would kill me if I didn't help him escape!”