12. Then Michal let David down through a window, and he made his escape in safety.
13. Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, putting a tangle of goat’s hair at its head and covering it with a blanket.
14. When Saul sent officers to arrest David, she said, “He is sick.”
15. Saul, however, sent the officers back to see David and commanded them, “Bring him up to me in his bed, that I may kill him.”
16. But when the messengers entered, they found the teraphim in the bed, with the tangle of goat’s hair at its head.
17. Saul asked Michal: “Why did you lie to me like this? You have helped my enemy to get away!” Michal explained to Saul: “He threatened me, saying ‘Let me go or I will kill you.’”
18. When David got safely away, he went to Samuel in Ramah, informing him of all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to stay in Naioth.
19. When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
20. he sent officers to arrest David. But when they saw the band of prophets presided over by Samuel in a prophetic state, the spirit of God came upon them and they too fell into the prophetic ecstasy.