1 Samuel 19:13 in context
1 Samuel 19:10–16
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
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