1 Samuel 19:16 meaning and explanation

And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair on its head.

1 Samuel 19:16, Berean Standard Bible

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Saul's messengers enter David's house expecting to seize a sick man, but instead find a household idol propped in the bed with goats' hair at its head. Michal, David's wife and Saul's daughter, has staged this deception to buy her husband time to escape.

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