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1 Samuel 19:16

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When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

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1 Samuel 19:16 in other translations

And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof.

1 Samuel 19:16 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 19:16 in context

  1. 14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
  2. 15Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
  3. 16When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
  4. 17Saul 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?’ ”
  5. 18Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.