1 Samuel 19:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Michal took the teraph (household good luck image) and laid it in the bed, put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with a bedspread.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

Then Michal took the household’s divine image and laid it in the bed, putting some goat’s hair on its head and covering it with clothes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Michal took a statue, and placed it on the bed. And she placed the pelt of a goat for the hair at its head. And she covered it with clothes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Michol took an image and laid it on the bed: and put a goat's skin with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes.

1 Samuel 19:13 Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Judges 17:5

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land (that is, Laish) said to their comrades, “Do you know that in these buildings there are an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? Now, therefore, consider what you will do.”

Judges 18:17

the five men who had gone to spy out the land proceeded to enter and take the idol of cast metal, the ephod, and the teraphim. The priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

1 Samuel 19:16

When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats’ hair on its head.