1 Samuel 19:11-13

Amplified Bible

¹¹Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him, so that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” ¹²So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled and escaped. ¹³And Michal took the ^[a]household idol and laid it on the bed, put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

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Footnotes

1 Samuel 19:13 Exactly what this was is not known, but the Hebrew word (teraphim) is the usual one to refer to household idols. It could have been an image bequeathed by Saul to Michal, perhaps indicative of Saul’s lapse from God, or just a spoil of war with no meaning for the Israelites. In any case, it appears to have been an image or idol about the size of a man, since Michal is able to use it as a ruse to trick Saul’s messengers (v 14).