1 Samuel 19:14

14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

1 Samuel 19:14 In-Context

12 So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.
13 Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed; she put a net of goats' hair on its head, and covered it with the clothes.
14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
16 When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats' hair on its head.
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