KJV King James Version
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.
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1 Samuel 19:13
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
WEB World English Bible
Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
ASV American Standard Version
And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats’ hair she hath put for his pillows, and covereth with a garment.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 19
10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
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.
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.
16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַתִּקַּ֨חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeמִיכַ֜לH4324 · mi.khalMichalאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַתְּרָפִ֗יםH8655 · te.ra.phimteraphimוַתָּ֙שֶׂם֙H7760 · sumto set: makeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַמִּטָּ֔הH4296 · mit.tahbedוְאֵת֙H853 · et[Obj.]כְּבִ֣ירH3523 · ke.virquiltהָֽעִזִּ֔יםH5795 · ezgoatשָׂ֖מָהH7760 · sumto set: makeמְרַֽאֲשֹׁתָ֑יוH4763 · me.ra.a.shahheadוַתְּכַ֖סH3680 · ka.sahto coverבַּבָּֽגֶד׃ סH899 · be.gedtreachery
Cross-references
Genesis 31:19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father’s.Judges 18:17And 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 18:14Then 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.Hosea 3:4For 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:Judges 17:5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
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