1 Samuel 19:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And when the messengers came in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair at its head.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ When the messengers arrived, they found the idol in the bed with the goat’s hair on its head.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when the messengers had arrived, they found a likeness on the bed, with a goat pelt at its head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And when the messengers were come in they found an image upon the bed, and a goat's skin at its head.

1 Samuel 19:16 Cross References

1 Samuel 19:13

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.

1 Samuel 19:15

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.”

1 Samuel 19:17

Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go; why should I kill you?’ ”