11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
12So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
13Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
14When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
15But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
— 1 Samuel 19:11-15