¹¹ Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, “If you do not save your life^[a] tonight, then tomorrow you will be killed!” ¹² So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped. ¹³ Then Michal took the household god^[b] and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat’s hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.