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1 Samuel 19:13 · KJV

“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. {image: Heb. teraphim}”

— 1 Samuel 19:13

Verse 12

So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

Verse 14

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He {is} sick.

1 Samuel 19 — Context

11

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.

12

So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

13

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. {image: Heb. teraphim}

14

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He {is} sick.

15

And Saul sent the messengers {again} to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that {were} her father's. {images: Heb. teraphim}

Judges 18:14

Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

Judges 18:17

And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, {and} came in thither, {and} took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men {that were} appointed with weapons of war.

Judges 17:5

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. {consecrated: Heb. filled the hand}

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and {without} teraphim: {image: Heb. a standing, or, statue, or, pillar}

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